RPF greets people on United Nations Day
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 23 2011:
While extending its greetings to the United Nations which has been striving for international peace and negotiating regional conflicts, the proscribed UG group Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) in a press statement signed by its Secretary Publicity, T Leishemba asked the India Government to de-colonise Manipur as a member of the United Nations.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
According to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution No 1514 (XV) dated December 14, 1960, the forced annexation of Manipur under the Indian Constitution is illegal.
The resolution maintained that the subjecting people to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights.
It also maintained that all peoples have the right to self-determination, but that this necessarily includes the right to freely determine their political status and to pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
It further maintained that all armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease and immediate steps shall be taken, in United Nations Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, the statement added.
The statement further claimed that India did not give a clear stand on its third report submitted to the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) 1996 and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which mentioned that self-determination should be provided to every people.
However, it also mentioned that self-determination should be based on history of the region and its people while adding that the territory of India should never be affected.
Contrary to the third report, the second report submitted in 1989 mentioned that �ndia has been forthright and consistent in upholding the tradition of self determination.
It has been the position of India ever since its independence that adherence to self determination is co-existent with the principle of sovereign equality" .
The statement further asserted that adopting armed struggle for a freedom movement from a colonial rule and force annexation is permissible under the charters and resolutions of the United Nations.
Also the captured revolutionaries should be treated as prisoner of war according to UN.
While maintaining that the present revolutionary movement of Manipur is unfolding accordingly to the United Nations and international law and neither India nor Manipur had been under one another's rule in their history, the RPF statement demanded to the Government of India to respect the resolutions of United Nations and de-colonise Manipur from its colonial rule.
Unless the GoI de-colonise Manipur from its rule, it has become necessary for the revolutionary organisations of Manipur to take centre stage among the various National Liberation Movements by around 50 countries of the world which are striving to gain freedom with every means at its disposal by 2050, the statement added.
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