PREPAK shares thoughts on way forward
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 23 2025: The proscribed People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) has asserted that sovereignty must be taken by any means necessary as it is not something that will be given.

The outfit, in a press release issued by its charge-de-affairs (publicity and propaganda) Leibaak-Ngakpa Luwang, alleged that the public is fully aware of the involvement of external forces in the crisis plaguing Kangleipak.

PREPAK claimed that ordinary people have been forced to act as village volunteers to confront attacks by Kuki-Zo militants as permitted under the fundamental duties enshrined in the Constitution due to the failure of the Centre to protect the lives and properties of Kangleipak's people.

The outfit further claimed that people have been left to fend for themselves in Kangleipak even though Article 355 authorises the Union Government to intervene in any State facing external aggression or internal disturbance.

While village volunteers are being hunted down and imprisoned, Kuki-Zo terrorists are being protected by the Government, it alleged.

PREPAK accused the Centre of pursuing a colonial policy and handling the crisis in a biased manner to bifurcate Kangleipak and wipe out its indigenous people.

It appealed to all sections of the population to remain vigilant.

The outfit, meanwhile, claimed that no Nation called India existed before British India was established by the British.

India might never have come into existence had the British not arrived, it added.

Which India do the people of India mean when they say the India that was partitioned in 1947?, it asked and claimed that the statements of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and BR Ambedkar advocating the reunification of partitioned India exposed their racial and expansionist designs.

PREPAK stated that British India was created by the British under the banner of the East India Company after forcibly occupying numerous princely States purely for their own administrative and strategic convenience.

People like Bhagat Singh who resisted British colonial rule were branded as terrorists by the British and many were hanged, the outfit said and added that Indians protested against the labelling of their patriots as terrorists.

"Today India honours these freedom fighters as 'shaheeds,' even though the British once labelled them as terrorists," the outfit observed.

Alleging that Kangleipak was forcibly merged with India in 1949 through military power, shortly after the Nation gained its independence, PREPAK accused India which had once opposed the British labelling its freedom fighters as terrorists of adopting identical colonial tactics by branding those fighting for Kangleipak's sovereignty as terrorists.

PREPAK continued that the people of Kangleipak do not seek a piece of Indian territory but the restoration of Kangleipak's sovereignty, which it claims India occupies and continues to terrorise.

Claiming that the revolutionaries of Kangleipak are not terrorists, PREPAK alleged that true terrorism is practiced by India by pursuing an expansionist policy.

India will never grant sovereignty to Kangleipak, and as such the people must take it through sustained and collective struggle, PREPAK said.

India has been pushing to declare Pakistan as a Nation which sponsored terrorism, PREPAK claimed and alleged that India itself should also be designated a terrorist State for the alleged acts of terrorism committed by its security forces in Kashmir and the WESEA region, including Kangleipak.

The outfit further claimed that India and its "racist media" deliberately portray the revolutionary movements in the WESEA region which arose from historical injustices as acts of terrorism.

Accusing India of refusing to ratify several international human-rights conventions despite having signed them, the outfit alleged that India continues to systematically harass and repress the people of Kangleipak.

Although the United Nations Charter promotes peace, inconvenient truths are deliberately concealed from the world, PREPAK claimed.

Every form of terrorism, including State terrorism, is a crime against humanity, yet no lawmakers or intellectuals have succeeded in producing a universally accepted definition of terrorism, the outfit claimed.

Maintaining that international law recognises the right of people whose sovereignty has been taken away to launch legitimate movements to reclaim it, PREPAK emphasised that terrorism, however, is unlawful.

PREPAK claimed that security forces harassed 415 people to death in India, including women and children in 1992 as per Amnesty International report.

The outfit claimed that the revolutionary movement in Kangleipak is political at its core which seeks to secure the right to self-determination.

The designation of the freedom struggle as terrorism by India will not discourage the legitimate freedom movement, PREPAK alleged.

The outfit further claimed that the root cause of the chronic issues besetting Kangleipak lies in the unresolved political conflict between India and Kangleipak.

Manipur was merged with India on September 21, 1949 through coercion, it alleged.

Hill and valley communities stood together as one when Kangleipak was a vibrant and sovereign kingdom, it said and added that Kangleipak safeguarded its independence even after most other regions of the Indian subcontinent had fallen under British rule.

PREPAK urged the hill and valley communities to unite and work together for the future of the land.

Kangleipak has become weak in every sphere, socially, politically, and economically since the merger with India, the outfit said and accused India of driving wedges between communities to erode mutual trust among the people.

PREPAK also claimed that India has been engaging in a proxy war to suppress the revolutionary movement in the WESEA region by providing logistic support to Kuki-Zo people since 1992 with Assam Rifles playing the key role and the same became evident in 2005 and 2008.Strengthening Kuki-Zo militants is beneficial to India, PREPAK alleged.

While the Meitei and Naga communities oppose India, the Kuki-Zo community collaborates with the Indian State, which in turn facilitates the growth of the Kuki-Zo population and arms them heavily, PREPAK alleged.

India has been waging a proxy war against armed revolutionary groups in the WESEA region, it claimed.

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