Spirit of freedom can't be suppressed: PREPAK
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 08 2022:
In connection with its 45th raising day on Sunday (October 9), the proscribed People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) has extended revolutionary greetings and honour to people of both hills and valley of Kangleipak (Manipur), party comrades, revolutionaries groups fighting for restoration of the lost independence of the motherland and other fellow groups in the WeSEA region.
The outfit also offered revolutionary salute to the brave patriots who have attained martyrdom during the course of revolutionary struggle to determine the destiny of motherland (Kangleipak).
It also extended revolutionary regard to comrades languishing as war prisoners in jails.
In his message, PREPAK's interim council chairman Aheiba Angom said that unity and obligation of all must be re-strengthened once more as revolution for independence will not find success without the strength of unity.
He said that the first obligation before the revolutionaries and Kanglei people now is to generate the power of solidarity and to build an unbreakable unity by sorting out differences in views through communication, and to engage in serious offensive against the Indian Occupational Force.
According to Aheiba Angom, India forcibly annexed Kangleipak in violation of Indian Independence Act 1947, the Manipur Constitution Act, 1947, International Law as well as the provisions of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969 also known as Treaty on Treaties.
The annexation seriously affected Kangleipak people's originally existing language, faith, customs, culture, conventions and land boundary.
Though Kangleipak has been annexed, the spirit of freedom in the hearts of all Kanglei people can never be suppressed.
It has been so chiselled into an indestructible mark in every heart of the revolutionaries as no force can ever ravage it.
Any thought of surrender to India or compromise to weaken the independence struggle has never been with the revolution aries.
PREPAK has endeavouring at the utmost level to advance a concerted independence struggle by consolidating the people of all the communities inhabiting in Kangleipak.
How ever, a handful of people who have fallen prey to Indian government and its agents as well as lost into the delusion of India are circulating the false narrative among the people, particularly the hill brothers and sisters, that the struggle for independence is meant only for the valley.
The government of India is working to prevent cadres fighting for the whole of motherland from setting foot in the hills by opening camps for ethnic armies at several parts of the hill on the pretext of Peace Talk and SoO with different hill groups, the PREPAK leader said in his message.
Though the area of Kangleipak after the Indian annexation has been reduced to 22,327 sq km, the then king Bodhchandra in his address at the first National Assembly of independent Kangleipak on October 18,1948 said that Kangleipak had her dominion over a wide area extending as far as the southern portion of China in the North, the gold mine in the Sibasagar valley, the river Chindwin in the east and south, and Chandrapore (Cachar) in the west.
King Bodhchandra also said that Kangleipak's area included 8,650 square miles plus 7,000 square miles of the Kabaw Valley and 7,900 square miles of the hills.
It means that land area of Kangleipak has been seriously distorted after coming under the Indian dominion.
The king's proclamation continued "All these times when Manipur was in the highest of her power Hill and Valley were one; and this oneness defended Manipur against all invasions and thus, she could maintain her independence up to 1891, when the rest of India had already been conquered by the British".
The official proclamation itself is evidence of the truth of the international boundary of the once independent Kangleipak, the PREPAK leader said.
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