39th raising day of MPA fittingly observed
Koireng-led UNLF shares thoughts
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, February 08 2026: The Military Affairs Committee (MAC) of Koireng-led UNLF has claimed that the situation unfolding around the world is advantageous to the liberation movements of WESEA .

What is missing or lacking is unity among the people, said a statement issued by the outfit's MAC on the occasion of the 39th raising day of its armed wing Manipur People's Army (MPA) (February 9) .

Greeting all the people of Manipur on the occasion, the MAC pointed out that the civil war raging in Myanmar has made the neighbouring country a battleground of the geopolitics of big powers like India, China, Russia and the USA .

While China and Russia have been backing the Myanmar military, US and western countries have been supporting the National Unity Government (NUG) led by NLD .

India has been supporting the Myanmar insurgents and at the same time, it is maintaining diplomatic relations with the Myanmar military, it said.

Given this ambivalent nature of India, the Myanmar military Government is of the view that India cannot be trusted.

The same opinion is also shared by the Myanmar insurgents, it said.

Following strong pressure from China, most insurgents of Myanmar have signed ceasefire agreements with the military junta.

In the aftermath of the recent general election which was won by the party backed by the military junta, mountainous regions where insurgent groups affiliated to NUG have strong presence will remain under the control of these insurgent groups.

But the military junta has reclaimed most of the cities and towns one after another.

It is China which stands to benefit the most from this situation, the MAC said.

This geopolitics will bring big changes to WESEA and surrounding regions, it said.

The MAC asserted that the liberation movements of Manipur and WESEA need to capitalise on this unfolding situation and struggle collectively to achieve the goal of liberation.

The claim of the Indian Home Minister that eviction from Reserved and Protected Forests and the High Court's order on the Meiteis' demand for ST status sparked the Kuki aggression on May 3, 2023 was just a facade aimed at covering up the Government of India's conspiracy to completely suppress the revolutionary movement of Manipur, it alleged.

It was a big conspiracy of geopolitics executed with the help of Kuki mercenaries from Myanmar.

It is with the same intention to cover up their conspiracy that the Government of India has been portraying the crisis as a Meitei-Kuki ethnic conflict, it said.

The first objective of his conspiracy is complete suppression of the liberation movement of Manipur, confinement of Meiteis to the valley areas and disabling revolutionary groups of Manipur from setting up bases in the hill areas dominated by Kukis.

The second objective is subduing the Naga revolutionary movement by planting Kukis imported from Myanmar in foothill areas inhabited by Nagas, the MAC said and added that this is an ongoing demographic war.

One major factor which facilitated this policy was the failure to identify illegal immigrants including Kukis between 1951 when the Inner Line Permit System was withdrawn and the recent time when the same system was enforced again.

There were also social, political and economic reasons, it said.

Another major factor is the absence of a socio-economic policy to develop the State's economy and a vision to consolidate the State's integrity, it said.

Absence of a Government committed to creating an interdependent economy among all the communities living together in the State for centuries also facilitated this policy aimed at suppressing the liberation movement, the MAC said.

It also bred an intention among many hill communities to pursue their own identity politics, it remarked.

These are the major factors hindering the creation of a collective idea and strength of Manipur.

It was also these weaknesses which enabled armed Kukis from Myanmar to launch a sustained aggression, the MAC said.

It is imperative for all the communities who believe in interdependence to fight collectively against the Government of India's policy of dividing the communities and annihilating them one by one.

Underscoring the need for forging unity, the MAC called upon all the youth who volunteered to fight the Kuki aggression to come out and join the liberation movement to liberate Manipur.

It then paid deepest respect and revolutionary salute to all the revolutionary fighters of Manipur who laid down their lives in the battles fought in the 'East' .

It also conveyed best wishes to all leaders and combatants of fraternal armed organisations.

The MAC further paid homage to all MPA cadres and cadres of other fraternal revolutionary organisations in the course of the liberation movement as well as all those who were killed in the ongoing violence.

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