Restoration of independence should be collective responsibility: RPF-II
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 25 2017: China's participation in the world economy as initiated by Deng Xioping in the 1970s provided a much needed economic leverage to the Chinese people .

A distinctive feature of Chinese readiness to participate in the world economy was its careful preparation to sustain collective principle based on Chinese growth.

Today, China is the second largest economy in the world .

Unlike China, Manipur not being an independent nation, the perception about Act East Policy that has significantly abrogated the notion of being a landlocked region traditionally needs to be rather cautious and multi-layered against the backdrop of potential dangers it entails, reads the RPF President's statement .

The current leadership who wield the power of the State should realize the situation without any further delay, if they possess an iota of national sense .

An additional responsibility is to check and stop the systematic intrusion of outsiders with a legal measure who are just on the verge of numerically subduing the indigenous communities.

The government of India must be held responsible for such a conspiracy to wipe out the indigenous populace, asserted the rebel leader .

Before things get out of control, the 'Indian Outsiders' who have intruded into Manipur through dubious mechanisms despite strong resistance from the indigenous people need a stringent regulation regarding their movement and settlement .

"Our land being a tiny state with historically distinct conditions and disconnected from the Indians, we reserve the right to exist independently.

The impact of population influx must be perceived as a common problem rather than community specific.

The severity of foreign population in our land is a long term challenge which demands both the hills and the valley to come together to work on an amicable approach and policy.

The anxiety and insecurity, as raised by the valley dwellers, is genuine for which all should seriously ponder upon collectively", Chaoren remarked .

The world is today facing a new challenge of confrontation between indigenous communities and outsiders.

The United States of America and Myanmar have been recently engulfed in a similar situation .

In the US, while shooting a man of Indian origin, the assailant reportedly shouted "Get out of my country" which implies the dynamics of the anxieties felt by the original settlers of US .

The situation in Myanmar is even graver.

The pitching of Buddhist Myanmaris and Rohingyas in Rakhine state is replete with similar indigenous vs outsider conflict.

The Rohingyas, being migrants from Bangladesh and India, never had the support of the indigenous Myanmaris .

The recent claim "Rakhine for Rohingya" have not gone down well with the Myanmaris which is the triggering factor for the present impasse in Myanmar.

The fate of the Tripuris becoming a minority is a well-known case.

One must be reminded of how the indigenous Tripuris are now displaced with a constitutional conspiracy called Scheduled Tribe Reservation .

The proposition of outsiders taking control of the political power in the state of Manipur would be equally disastrous for the hills and valley.

The ongoing struggle for enacting a regulatory law for the outsiders in Manipur is an urgent issue that the hill people should support without any apprehension, reads the statement.

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