MNPF celebrates 3rd raising day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 11 2016 :
The Manipur Naga People's Front (MNPF) celebrated its third raising day at its general headquarters and mobile battalions.
The raising day celebration held at the general headquarters was presided by MNPF chairman Francis where homage was paid to all the people who had laid down their lives in the course of the armed revolutionary movement.
Francis then paid his gratitude to the Almighty God and the people of Manipur for their support to MNPF, conveyed a press release issued by the outfit's assistant publicity secretary Thomas Numai.
Francis asserted that the hill people and plain people of Manipur share close filial relationship and they have been living together for generations in harmony.
Even today, Lai Haraoba festivals of Meiteis are never complete without enactment of the Tangkhul Saba.
Exchange of gifts between hill people and plain people and indispensability of Tangkhuls' Leirum phi in the marriage ceremony of Meiteis are all testimonies of the close fraternal bond shared between hill people and plain people of Manipur, Francis asserted.
Hill people's contribution in the liberation movement against Burmese occupation in 1826, hanging of Chirai Thangal to death for his role in the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891, the Khongshai War of 1917, the movements led by Jadonang and Rani Gaidinliu between 1930 and 1949 were all directed against foreign occupation of Manipur.
It's time for all the revolutionary groups of Manipur to identify the common enemy and fight collectively to win back the lost sovereignty of Manipur.
The accord signed between NSCN-IM and the Government of India was not in the collective interest of Naga people.
The accord was signed in the interest of NSCN-IM alone, Francis claimed.