Our peoples' destiny lies in our unity-UNLF IV
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 26 2018: "As the world is fast changing and the impact of Globalization is enormous, we can't help but to take our steps cautiously", reads the Central Committee's statement.

India's Act East Policy which will be taken up through Manipur as its corridor to South East Asia, is not intended purely for the benefit and development of the peoples of Manipur.

Underneath its "development mantra", there lies a sole hidden agenda for undercutting the liberation struggle by making it irrelevant with the life of the common people, it alleged.

This is basically a policy to drag the region, particularly Manipur in India's globalization as a means for consolidating their alien rule.

"We have no other alternative but to get prepared to be able to absorb the benefits and reject the harmful.

All these will require timely preparation of infrastructure and inner strength so as to be able to absorb the merciless impact of globalization", it continued.

The present trend of economic globalization is cataclysmic for small backward economies of nations like Manipur which still doesn't have a sound economic foundation of its own.

US and UK's apprehensions about the impact of globalization affecting their national interests and President Donald Trump's "America First" and Britain's decision to withdraw from European Union should be a matter for intense deliberation among academicians, intellectuals and entrepreneurs.

"We should not tamely hand over our precious resources to outside multi-national companies including Indian capitalist industrialists who are profit racketeers just for the sake of a few jobs or a few state royalties", it asserted.

The much hyped mega railway project and trans-Asian highway which are to be constructed under the mask of Act East Policy will bring in countless economic migrants from India and abroad.

Academicians, intellectuals and entrepreneurs need heady discussions to frame policies and programmes to safeguard people's interest against the evil design of India's Act East Policy to obliterate Manipuri nation, asserted the Central Committee.

It then conveyed, greetings to all fraternal revolutionary parties of Manipur as well as of WESEA and also the alleged oppressed peoples of WESEA.

The UNLF Central Committee concluded by offering revolutionary salute to the founder leaders, party cadres, all the brave fighters who have laid down their life for the national struggle, and those civilians who have been killed by Indian military forces as well as CM Sanayaima, party cadres and all the revolutionary compatriots who are languishing in the enemy's jail.

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