Red Army Uprising Day today
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, March 25 2022: The proscribed People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) will be celebrating 42nd Red Army Uprising Day of the Red Army, the armed unit of the outfit on Saturday.

In connection with the event, Red Army's Interim Council chairman Aheiba Angom has offered revolutionary salute arid extended revolutionary greetings to the fellow countrymen who are bearing the brunt of India's suppressive rule.

The chairman also extended revolutionary greetings to fellow revolutionary organizations and their army units of Kangleipak (Manipur) and WESEA region.

Aheiba Angom also sent out a message to the people on the occasion and maintained that national liberation movement of the people of Kangleipak has been continuing till date ever since India forcibly annexed Kangleipak in total contravention of the international laws.

According to Aheiba Angom, the two-day national convention on the annexation of Kangleipak held in Imphal on October 28-29, 1993 had dismissed the agreement signed between the then King of Kangleipak and the representative of Dominion of India on September 21, 1949 and termed the agreement as illegal and having no constitutional validity.

A two-day national seminar on Human Rights held on December 8 and 9, 1994 also resolved to disapprove the merger of Manipur to India in 1949 .

The 5th resolution of the national seminar insisted the Government of India on providing the people of Kangleipak the right to self-determination.

A huge public rally held at Pologround, Imphal on December 10, 1994 also resolved to strive for achieving the right of the people of Kangleipak to self-determination.

If India respects human rights, it is still not that late for them to adopt a political decision on their own to free Kangleipak so as to bring about peace and tranquillity in the region forever.

Only then, people of the world will praise India.

However, people of Kangleipak are still eagerly waiting for such an idea to come into the heads of the land greedy Indian leaders, Aheiba Angom said.

According to the Resolution No 1514(XV) adopted in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of December 14, 1960, all peoples will have equal rights and Right to Self Determination (RSD), and there should be no military oppression or torture against them.

Moreover, freedom of the people of a country cannot be deprived and the territorial integrity cannot be disturbed.

Article 1 of both International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (IC-CPR) and International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 recognises the rights of all peoples to self-determination including the right to freely determine their political status, pursue their economic, social and cultural goals, and manage and dispose of their own resources.

Considering all peoples of the world, the first right of a distinct people is the right to self-determination and the right being pursued by the people of Kangleipak is this right.

Even though India had ratified the UN Charter agreeing that it will not interfere into territorial integrity and political independence of free and sovereign nations, it continues to obliterate Kangleipak.

The UN has not been apprised that there is no self-rule in Kangleipak.

What is happening in the region is armed conflict.

Consequently, those who are presently imprisoned in the jails of Kangleipak and India are political prisoners and the International Committee of Red Cross ought to be allowed to meet them.

According to Aheiba, Kangleipak had never been a part of India under proper inter national laws and Kangleipak never wishes to break an inch of India's land.

At the same time, Kangleipak's land that was annexed forcibly by India should be given back without breaking an inch, he contended in the message.

Even as many organisations have submitted representations to the UN regarding the human rights violations and other myriad issues prevailing in the region, the international body has noticed that there is a State called Kangleipak, of which freedom and human rights had been totally deprived.

The so-called freedom provided by India to the people of Kangleipak is the freedom that the Gol allocates a few crores of rupees in the state budget and the occupation army can kill the people of the state at their whims.

The world community has started asking what kind of peace, tranquillity and freedom can be brought about by imposing AFSPA-1958 to suppress the liberation movement and killing the innocent people at gunpoint.

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