Terrorists are the rulers of India - PREPAK
Source: IT News

Imphal, May 29 2019: A statement by Kh Sathy, Acting Chairman, of the proscribed group People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, (P R E P A K ) said that India is a country created by British and now left to terrorists to rule it.

The statement said, Where on earth was a country called India before the British created British India? If the British had not come to Bharat, what the world is seeing today as a big country, India might not have existed.

What Indians are frequently saying that the partition by the British created India in 1947, who really created India or from whence India existed? The remark once made by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and the so-called father of the Indian Constitution, BR Ambedkar in the Indian Parliament that they want all the Indians separated by the partition to be united amply demonstrates their characteristic of being racist and greedy of territory.

First, the British, who came for trade in the name of the East India Company, forcibly occupied many different kingdoms and created a territory called India just for the sake of their administrative conveniences.

Later, many brave patriots who fought against the British to restore freedom and sovereignty of their motherland like Bhagat Singh were branded as terrorists and hanged to death.

However the people of India steadfastly objected to the terrorist tag given to Bhagat Singh.

Rather, to the contrary of the British tag of terrorist, the Indians regard him as a martyr who had sacrificed his life for his motherland, in their language, "Shahid" and pay respect to him at the highest level.

"Hardly before the pain of escaping the chain of slavery under the British colonial rule got over with, when Kangleipak was forcibly merged with the Indian colonial dominion using military power and terrorizing tactics in 1949.That India, which did not like Bhagat Singh to be branded as a terrorist by the British, is now terming the revolutionaries of this region who are fighting for restoration of their sovereignty and independence and trying to escape the colonial yoke as terrorists.

What India should remember is that Kangleipak is not trying to disturb the integrity of India created out of nowhere by the British.

What we are saying is only that return our land that you have forcibly snatched by adopting terrorizing tactics.

Our revolutionaries are not terrorists, but are courageous patriots.

The terrorists are India who are colonial expansionists and greedy of territory.

This is the conflict of political history that cannot be compromised that prevails between the colonial masters and the colonized people who are trying to get out of the colonial bondage.

"India is relentlessly trying to blame Pakistan as a state that sponsors terrorist groups and declared as such.

On the other hand, is there any reason why India, of which occupation forces have continuously carried out during the past so many years terrorist activities in Kashmir and WESEA region including Kangleipak that had never been part of Indian territory, shouldn't be declared as a terrorist state? After the United Nations Security Council had included the name of Azhar Masood in the list of world terrorists, particularly after India's intense lobby, India must be aware that it is yet to be declared as a terrorist state in view of the excessive acts of terrorism meted out to the people of Kashmir and WESEA region.

Unless India steps back from its acts of terrorism or if India is not declared as a terrorist state, it will be a big setback in the efforts made by the United Nations to wipe out terrorism from the surface of the earth.

"In contravention of the provisions laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Indian Constitution, India has been engaged in summary execution of persons in custody without any trial at whims.

Numerous people have been tortured to death and many others have succumbed due to excessive torture in custody.

Sometimes beyond all human sympathy, many innocent people have been killed after arresting them alive and their bodies had been made to disappear forever.

However, families of those killed, without knowing whether they will return or not, are waiting with a heavy heart unable to perform the last rites.

With the enforcement of the extreme tool of colonialism, that the whole world despises and that facilitates gross violation of human rights�AFSPA 1958, despite its claim that it is the largest democracy in the world, India has been imposing an undeclared emergency for many years resulting in military rule in Kangleipak.

That has given way to genocide, massacre, etc, and in the name of combing operation against the revolutionaries, many women have been raped and killed while many others have been left as maimed and disabled.

Not only these, in their most extreme strike of terrorism, the Indian occupation force has hurled bomb at the MeiraPaibis, who are known not only in this region but also all over the world as the symbolic institute of human rights protection causing casualties.

Instead of considering and treating with respect the arrested revolutionaries as prisoners of war as per the provisions of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which is meant to settle the world's conflicts, they are subjected to brutal torture and many of them have been tortured to death.

Common Article 3 of four Geneva Conventions clearly points out as the following - "(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed 'horse de combat' by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria..

Thus "(a) violation to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking hostages, (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;" etc are prohibited.

These are Laws that cannot be set aside�"Jus Cogens." Despite all these strict principles, India keeps breaching the international law. "Section 4, 5 and 6 of AFSPA -1958, enforced in contravention of the provisions of ICCPR, 1966, which India itself had ratified, and also in violation of its own laws, authorize the occupation forces to kill innocent people without a fair trial, and behind the undeclared emergency, those armed forces personnel, who kill innocent people without trial, are protected by the draconian law.

The world denounces intimidation, capture, kidnap, torture and killing of innocent people and all kinds of terrorism against humanity.

The Vienna declaration says, "The international community should take necessary steps to enhance co-operation to prevent and combat terrorism." India is trying to project the freedom struggle caused by the complicacies in what ought to have been in the history equally as terrorism.

But the people of the world understand that those revolutionary organizations that carry on freedom struggle are not terrorists.

The government is spreading a lot of propaganda that make the people find it difficult to understand the difference.

Like the old adage says, one who shouts louder is considered as the truth.

Without looking up at the history, this confusion cannot be cleared.

Besides, while the intensely racist Indian media are covering up their terrorism, they are determined to project the liberation movement of the WESEA region as terrorism.

Though India had signed the Geneva Convention on August 12, 1949, it is yet to ratify the Additional Protocol 2 of 1977 on one or other ground.

Their NGOs do not put pressure on the government either.

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 7 of ICCPR both of which had been signed by India prohibit torture of human beings.

The government has no power to subject people to torture.

Though India had signed the international convention to stop torture, it has not ratified yet.

"Though the advanced nations consider torture and outrage of personal dignity as crime, which are prohibited by law, India is persistently carrying out torture in Kangleipak.

The UN Charter puts it in print pledging that peace and tranquility in the world will be protected.

However, in these objectives, the truth is always kept hidden.

All kinds of terrorism, including state terrorism and crimes against humanity occur everywhere in the world every day.

The intellects and lawmakers of the world have not been able to create a single definition of 'terrorism' commonly approved by the whole world till today.

Ever since 1960 when the UN had taken the step to end all sorts of colonial occupation, the political violence and freedom movements of different communities that ought to erupt constantly are not over yet.

Terrorism is a crime committed against the humankind.

Nevertheless, the international laws allow the freedom movements of the communities whose freedom had been snatched away.

When the people use their right to self determination, they can appropriately use the power of international laws.

However the power used by terrorism is against the law, it is a crime.

According to a report of the International Amnesty, police and Army had tortured 415 people including women and children to death in 1992 .

"Enforced or involuntary disappearance of persons is flagrant violation of human rights.

The incidents of enforced or involuntary disappearance used to occur almost daily in Kangleipak a few years ago.

In 1979, following a resolution�33/173 adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights took up steps to prevent such incidents.

The Commission on Human Rights decided to establish a Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances of persons in 1980. The enforced or involuntary disappearance of persons not only violates the covenant of human rights but also infringes the provisions laid by the "Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials and Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners" endorsed by the ECOSOC in 1957 .

"When a state sentences someone, who has been convicted by an appropriate court after a fair trial for committing crimes, to capital punishment, it is not considered crime or infringement of human right.

However, when the state sentences someone to capital punishment without a proper trial, it is a crime, an act of terrorism.

Terrorism, without moral ground, commits crimes against the humankind.

Yet when an oppressed, colonized people try to regain their lost sovereignty and freedom by escaping from the colonial yoke, they have all the moral grounds to resort to using any means in their capacity, and the world sees and respects it as a freedom movement.

"When India extends unflinching support to all other freedom movements in the world, it blatantly brands the freedom movements of the WESEA region as terrorism.

This is a deliberate ploy to distort the history of mankind.

Till 1994, the Government of India arrested 90,000 of its own citizens as terrorists under TADA-1985.Such huge number of people was not arrested even during the Quit India movement of 1942.What is questionable is that would a country with one lakh terrorists still be called a democratic country or would it be considered as political crime? "The way the people of Kangleipak are pressing ahead with the freedom movement under the international norms is a political expression of their Right to Self Determination.

The Right to Self Determination proves it right or legitimate in the world nations' body - United Nations.

The history of world will not just endorse what India calls the freedom movement of Kangleipak as terrorism, nor will the people stop it, and none can ever say that there is no freedom movement in Kangleipak.

"The main conflict between India and Kangleipak since 1949 when a political conflict came about between the two is the nihility of peace and tranquility.

This situation arose after India, flouting all international laws, forcibly annexed sovereign and independent Kangleipak to the Indian dominion by threatening the erstwhile king, Bodhachandra, using military power to sign an already prepared paper what they later called the Merger Agreement against the provisions of Manipur Constitution Act, 1947 on September 21, 1949 .

By then, the King had no power to sign any agreement or treaty.

"The Manipur Constitution Act, 1947 was formulated after closely examining the then British Parliamentary system.

In Britain, there is no such thing as the titular head, the monarch, representing the country, signs any agreement or treaty with representatives of other countries.

In Kangleipak too, the then figurehead, the King had no real power to sign any agreement or treaty with representatives of other country.

As per Section 3 and Section 10(a) of the Manipur Constitution Act, 1947, only the Council of Ministers comprising the Chief Minister (to be read as Prime Minister) had the State Executive power to do so.

If the Manipur Assembly, which was the then National Assembly, had given approval to the so-called Merger Agreement signed by King Bodhachandra in 1949, it might have been valid.

But it wasn't so.

The Manipur Assembly in its sitting held on October 28, 1949 adopted a resolution rejecting the so-called agreement as per the provisions of the Manipur Constitution Act.

"Article 8 of Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), 1969 clearly states that a person without power cannot represent a state to sign an agreement or treaty and if the state does not ratify it, the treaty or agreement has no validity.

Article 51 of the Convention states that if a representative of a state is intimidated to sign an agreement or treaty, the agreement or treaty has no validity.

Taking into account the Manipur Constitution Act, 1947 and the Vienna Convention, the Shillong agreement of 1949 has no legal validity at all which proves that the independence of Kangleipak still remains intact.

Kanglei people are not belligerent community, and are not thirsty of Indians' blood.

Shedding blood of any innocent Kanglei inhabitant or a single Indian on the soil of Kangleipak is least desired.

The revolutionary movement being carried on by the Kanglei people is only to restore our freedom that had been forcibly taken away by India and also to protect the territorial boundary.

Therefore the one and only means to solve the conflict that prevails in the WESEA region is for the Indian occupation force to withdraw from the soil of Kangleipak and leave forever.

Except this, there is no other alternative.

As the 20th Century has passed and the 21stCentury has set in, it's really shameful for India to claim itself as one of the leading nations in the world trying to usher in peace while it remains playing the key role of a big colonial expansionist nation", the statement said.

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