PREPAK traces Manipur crisis to Zalen'gam dream-II
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, October 09 2023: Continuing his goodwill message on the occasion of outfit's 46th Foundation Day celebrated on October 9, interim council chairman of PREPAK Aheiba Angom maintained that Kangleipak remained an Asiatic sovereign independent country except for some period of Seven Years' Devastion (1819-1826), the British Paramountcy after the Anglo-Kangleipak War, 1891 that lapsed on August 14, 1947 and the subsequent Indian annexation of Kangleipak on October IS, 1949 till date.

The Treaty of Yandaboo signed on February 24, 1826 recognised the sovereignty of Kangleipak.

The British Empress, Queen Victoria never annexed Kangleipak into her empire giving due recognition and respect to the political personality of Kangleipak.

Kangleipak scripted the oldest Constitution in South East Asia, the Loiyumba Shinyen during the reign of King Loiyumba in the 11th-12th CE.

Kangleipak Constitution Act, 1947 established a democratic cabinet form of government till Kangleipak National Parliament was abolished with the Indian annexation of Kangleipak on October 15, 1949.Since then, the national liberation movement started for attaining the right to self-determination of Kangleipak people from the racist Indian suppressive rule.

As evident from the pages of history of every colonial occupation, gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continued unabated in Kangleipak and engulfed with population decimation of the indigenous population with the mainland Indian population, exploitation of mineral and natural resources, proxy war in the name of ethnic crisis, and the establishment of a captive market economy.

The ethnic cauldron with the use of mercenaries and auxiliary forces from inside and outside Kangleipak has been the regular feature of Indian colonialism in trying to sabotage the freedom movement in Kangleipak.

The massive movement of Indian traders, large scale influx of Bangladeshis and the continued immigration of Myanmarese refugees into Kangleipak remained unchecked for decades as a weapon for demographic change to uproot the indigenous populations.

These colonial dynamics are deeply synchronized to derail the legitimate Kangleipak people's struggle for self determination.

For decades, India has been exploiting the use of mercenaries and auxiliary forces to contain the freedom movements in the north eastern region of India.

The Kuki-Naga clash of 1993, Meetei-Meetei Pangal clash of 1993, Kuki-Paite clash of 1996, Kuki Dimasa clash of 2003, Kuki-Karbi clash of 2004, and the recent Kuki- Meetei clash stand witnesses to these colonial designs.

These proxy wars will keep the various ethnic communities in the north-east divided and will not bring any development in the region.

Deployment of more than70,000 Indian armed forces could not contain this more than five months' long ethnic crisis in Kangleipak.

This may be seen as huge Indian military built-up in the India-Burma region.

The way both houses of the Indian Parliament could not discuss Kangleipak crisis and the several adjournments of the Indian parliament clearly reflected the colonial attitude of the Indian rulers towards Kangleipak, Aheiba Angom said in his message.

Touching on the issue of exploitation of natural resources, the goodwill message of' the PREPAK interim council chairman said that Kangleipak has vast reserves of natural resources like limestone, chromite, nickel, copper, platinum group metals, petroleum and natural gas as reported except for the uranium reserve by the GSI & State Geology & Mining Divisional Development apart from the rich flora and fauna in their natural habitats.

India's fear for a self-sustainable Kangleipak with these rich resources leads to absorption of many talented youths of Kangleipak into the different strata of the Indian security and intelligence agencies for perpetuation of infightings to subdue national self-determination movement of Kangleipak.

The infamous Loktak Hydro-Electric Power Project has inundated more than 80,000 acres of agricultural land, thus making Kangleipak economically dependent.

Today, the Loktak lake, the largest fresh water lake in the WESEA region is on the verge of peril and has threatened the existence of Keibul Lamjao, the only floating park in the world and the home of the brow-antlered deer-Sangai, the only species of its kind in the world.

India has also allowed exploitation of the abundant medicinal and ornamental plants in Kangleipak by many unknown companies.

India has been continuously trying to sell off the mineral resources of Kangleipak stealthily to many MNCs.

The indigenous people of Kangleipak thwarted India's bid to Jubiliant Oil and Gas Private Limited, a company based in Netherlands for exploration of oil and natural gas in Tamenglong in 2012.Further, the indigenous people of Kangleipak have organized themselves to chase away the Asian Oilfields and Alpha Geo Company from oil exploration in Kangleipak under the New Exploration Licensing Policy.

Besides, oil and natural gas, Kangleipak has vast deposits of Uranium in Chandel and Chromium in Ukhrul.

The local people were misinformed of the environmental impacts of the mineral exploration.

Chromite exploration in Ukhrul may lead to huge landslides in the hills which may create a natural catastrophe.

India yearns to be a superpower by exploiting the mineral resources of WESEA region in total disregard of the human settlements in the region, Aheiba Angom asserted.

According to Aheiba Angom, Indian occupation has made Kangleipak a dependent state that serves as a captive market for products including daily needs from the rest of India.

Without even a single industry where 500-600 people can work at one time, the economy of Kangleipak is purely a monetary phenomenon, which in reality has no leg to stand on.

The present onslaught of Kuki Narco-terrorists has also uprooted the only vital economy of Kangleipak, agriculture and handloom industry.

The parasitic colonial mindset has seemed to strike many the hypotheses if Kangleipak could ever survive independently without the backyard support of Indian economy.

The colonial divisive mechanism has made economically resourceful of only 8 percent of the whole area of Kangleipak.

The non-uniform land laws and baffled economy have successfully entangled the ethnic communities at one another.

The transcending British colonial capitalist economy in India has left no stone unturned to implant deep rooted communal hatred in sharing a portion of the inflow of central funds from New Delhi, he said, adding that Kanglei people remain critically hypnotized in the illusion of development in this captive market economy in total unaware of falling into the death trap of the colonial system.

Kanglei people should be aware of these facts and situation and should rise for a full-fledged political emancipation that leads to freedom from India, Aheiba Angom added.

Concluding the goodwill message, Aheiba Angom said PREPAK shall carry on the legitimate Kangleipak people's national liberation movement till Kangleipak joins the comity of nations.

Concluded .

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