ASUK calls total shutdown on August 15
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 13 2025:

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After killings and torture of innocent civilians under the immunity granted by the Armed Forces' Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for decades, Indian security forces engineered ethnic clashes using their allies and patronising a community to act against those who do not believe in Indian Union or have no established loyalty to India.

With the objective to sustain the ongoing ethnic conflict, the community loyal to the Indian Army is bringing in more members of their kindred tribes from outside to challenge opponent communities.

According to the ASUK statement, the main objective of the ongoing policies is to trigger demographic imbalance to ultimate uproot the indigenous communities from their ancestral lands, assimilate them into those coming from outside locally known as 'Mayangs' and erase their identities.

If the present trend continues, the Meeteis will be the first to be uprooted from their ancestral land followed by other indigenous communities, it said.

The ASUK statement continued that India never existed as a united country but formed through appeasement or forcible annexation of over 600 princely states colonised by the British for a long time.

Just before their departure, the British clustered the sub-continent into two parts, India and Pakistan, in 1947 with the former coercing many princely states to join the Indian Union, even using political and military actions, the ASUK said and cited Manipur, Hyderabad and Kashmir as examples initially and Goa and Sikkim later.

Since inception, India turned both expansionist and imperialist state dominated by mainland Hindi-speaking people with Indian leaders always having a long-standing agenda to politically and culturally assimilate non-Hindi speaking people inhabiting in peripheral regions of the country.

Successive governments be it the Congress, UPA, Janata Dal or BJP pursued assimilation policy.

The only difference between the past governments and the-present one under the leaderships of BJP, RSS and NDA is that assimilation policy was done covertly and awaited natural death of assimilated smaller communities while the present government implements the policy in very aggressive manner for decimation of minority communities.

While describing the present regime under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as nothing less than 'fascist' referencing with '14 characteristics of Fascism identified by political scientist Lawrence Britt in 2003, the ASUK likened the present regime to past authoritarian governments.

While stressing the need for making efforts to have 'liberated consciousness' among the colonised people of Manipur, the ASUK called for initiating 'anti-colonial violence' or 'passive resistance' or both to achieve this objective.

This will enable colonised people of the land to understand reality of self, reality of colonial administration and reality of the globe.

Understanding all these realities will surely convert colonised people of Manipur into real human, the ASUK observed.

It will be self-distancing from reality, self-deceiving, self-approving and self-destructing for the colonised people to join Independence Day celebration of the colonial Owner (India), it cautioned, maintaining that colonised people of Manipur have no reason to join the celebration.

"Skipping the celebration would be 'passive resistance', keep alive real history of own and realise objective for liberated consciousness," ASUK observed.

After deep consideration of this thought, the ASUK imposed total shutdown on August 15 from 6am to 6pm, the statement concluded and appealed to the people of Manipur to stop considering India's reality as their own but strive to understand the ground reality.

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