Idea of ethnic homeland will not last long : CorCom
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 07 2026:
The Coordination Committee (CorCom) has categorically stated that the idea of communal, ethnic homeland will not be sustainable in Manipur.
A statement issued by the CorCom on its 15th foundation day asserted that Manipur (Kangleipak) is still defined by the idea "A society progresses in co-existence, not in seclusion".
It's time for all the communities living together in Manipur (Kangleipak) to shed communal outlook and stop building communal walls, the committee said.
The CorCom warned that communal outlook and politics will bring no good other than doing harm to each and every indigenous community.
On the occasion of its 15th foundation day (July 8), the CorCom has greeted all the people and revolutionary groups of Manipur (Kangleipak) and WESEA.
The committee has also offered revolutionary salute to all the martyrs who had laid down their lives in the course of the liberation movement.
The CorCom alleged that India was never a complete Nation State and it started dreaming for a modern Nation State on the foundation laid by the British colonial rule.
Bharat (India) had no definite pre-colonial National territory.
As such, Indian leaders struggled to build a territorial nationalism based on the British colonial cartography, it said.
As India had no 'geo-body' of being a Nation State, the Indian Nationalist movement did not respect the States which existed as independent Nations.
Many of these kingdom States had adopted democratic Constitutions before the Union of India did but the Indian Nationalists started challenging these democratic constitutions, it said.
Soon after, the Union of India started annexing the independent kingdoms using military and police forces one after another, the outfit said citing the cases of Manipur (Kangleipak), Hyderabad, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir and Sikkim.
Not long after, Indian leaders started treating the North East region (WESEA) as their frontier.
Government of India's documents clearly State that the major factors which drove the annexation of Manipur (Kangleipak) were its location at the frontier and the presence of a strong communist movement, the CorCom claimed.
Under its expansionist policy, the Union of India militarized WESEA permanently and it started treating the region as a frontier of its geopolitics, alleged CoRCom.
After the Union of India annexed Manipur (Kangleipak) in 1949, Manipur suffered extensive repression politically, socially, economically and also rampant human rights violations, it said.
The annexation of Manipur (Kangleipak) as well as the imposition of AFSPA violate several international humanitarian laws, particularly Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
It alleged that the Union of India has been unleashing all kinds of repressive measures in Manipur (Kangleipak) and WESEA including forced disappearances, fake encounters and rapes.
As India did not have a definite 'National map', Indian leaders tried to create India/Bharat based on the cartography drawn by British rulers.
It is for this very reason that China has been refusing to accept the McMohan Line, 1914, it said.
The current political economy of India is a blend of the idea of Hindu Rastra and capitalism, and this hybrid political economy is already on the path of exploiting the natural resources, ecology and underground mineral resources in WESEA, it said.
MoU have been already signed with Patanjali Foods Limited and Godrej Agrovet for large scale plantation of palm oil, and the State Government has also given its consent.
At the same time, right wing fascist forces and neo-capitalists have been scheming to mine critical minerals in WESEA, the CorCom said.
It alleged that the Government of India has been plotting to further militarise Manipur by creating buffer zones and suppress the liberation movements of WESEA by using proxy mercenary militias under the SoO agreement.
The initiative of palm oil plantation was launched under the National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP).
Under this initiative, the Government of India has already identified 66,652 hectares across six districts for palm oil plantation.
But the policy of palm oil plantation had failed miserably in Indonesia and Malaysia.
As palm oil severely affects ecological balance and agro-forests, palm oil plantation is a big issue at present, it said.
The CorCom warned that palm oil plantations will cause massive damage to the State's natural environment.
It said that the Government is yet to take free, prior and informed consent from the indigenous people of Manipur regarding palm oil plantation.
When the people are preoccupied with ethnic politics and communal ideologies, the State's fertile fields and forests are facing irreversible destruction, it added.
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