Kangleipak was never a part of India: PREPAK
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, March 25 2022: Even though, some books written after 1934 distorted the history of Kangleipak, wrongly introducing the people as the descendents of Babrubahan, Mukherjees and Pandeys thus creating a misconception that the national liberation movement of Kangleipak is a separatist movement, Kangleipak was never a part of India under proper international laws, asserted the proscribed PREPAK.

On the occasion of the 42nd Uprising Day of Red Army, PREPAK, its Interim Council Chairman Aheiba Angom has greeted all the people who have been bearing the brunt of the alleged colonial rule.

A statement issued by Aheiba Angom also conveyed revolutionary greetings to 'fellow revolutionary organizations' and their army units of Kangleipak and WESEA region.

The national liberation movement of the people of Kangleipak has been continuing till today ever since India allegedly annexed Kangleipak in total contravention of the international laws.

The two-day National Convention on the annexation of Kangleipak held in Imphal on October 28-29 in 1993 had dismissed the agreement signed between the then king of Kangleipak and the representative of Dominion of India on September 21, 1949 as illegal and having no constitutional validity.

As a follow up stand, a two-day National Seminar on Human Rights held on December 8-9, 1994 resolved to disapprove the merger of Manipur to India in 1949, it said.

Saying that the 5th resolution of the National Seminar insisted the Government of India to provide the people of Kangleipak the right to self determination, it recalled that a huge public rally held at Pologround in Imphal on December 10 of 1994 resolved to strive for achieving the right of the people of Kangleipak to self determination.

After AO Hume set up the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1885, a white woman, Annie Besant laid the foundation for the Indians to determine for themselves.

Afterward, the Labour Party of Britain took the political decision for freedom of India in 1947 .

Thus India became an independent country.

So if India respects human rights, it is still not too late to adopt a political decision to free Kangleipak so as to bring about peace and tranquillity in the region for ever, the outfit asserted.

It went out to point out that Article 1 of both International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 recognize the rights of all peoples to self-determination, including the right to freely determine their political status, pursue their economic, social and cultural goals, and manage and dispose of their own resources.

Even though India had ratified the UN Charter agreeing that it would not interfere with the territorial integrity and political independence of free and sovereign Nations, it continues to obliterate Kangleipak, it alleged.

Kangleipak never craves for a single inch of India's land.

At the same time, Kangleipak's land that was allegedly annexed by India should be given back without breaking an inch, Aheiba Angom said.

With the firm determination of liberating 'our land' and in order to build a strong and united revolutionary movement, Revolutionary Joint Committee (RJC) and Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF) were formed on various occasions, and Coordination Committee (CorCom) has been set up yet again to carry on the revolutionary movement.

All these were possible because of the people's invaluable support and encouragement bestowed on the revolutionaries and the relentless and tireless courage and sacrifices of fraternal revolutionary organizations.

The Interim Council Chairman asserted that the Red Army men must firmly bear in mind that as long as the Red Army keep launching overt and covert offensives against Indian military forces, the hour of regaining the lost freedom and achieving the goal of the revolutionary movement is getting closer.

On the other hand, it is not an easy task to escape from the colonial noose and reclaim the lost independence and sovereignty of a colonised land.

It will be possible only when all the people join the freedom struggle and make it a people's struggle, reads the statement.

The outfit also offered revolutionary salute to all the martyrs who laid down their lives in battles fought against the enemy for freedom, development and an egalitarian society, and because of torture and oppression as well as revolutionaries who are languishing in prisons and also all those who have been maimed for life due to severe torture by Indian military forces.

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