UNLF vows to fight for integrity, freedom
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 24 2012: Contd from previous issue .

Though the indigenous peoples of WESIA (Western Southeast Asia) have superficial and temporary issues of difference and petty contradictions, these people share the same social systems, long historical journey together, and mutually interdependent economic systems, and also from sheer topographic and physical geographical features which could not separate one from another, and "our close kin settlements make us inseparable", the UNLF asserted.

The collective of indigenous people who are suffering the alien subjugation of India should, instead of fighting for independence of separate communities, should struggle together for collective freedom in order to defeat the alleged Indian colonial power.

This very struggle is necessitated by the objective conditions of the true realities of the region.

From the nature of the emerging and ensuing unity of the revolutionary groups of these regions, India had realized the necessity to suppress the revolutionary groups all the more in order to meet the supposed threat of Chinese expansion in the Northeast.

Now China had used the 'String of Pearls Theory' to surround India on all fronts, and the fact of the non ending nature of the independence struggles, which they came to see in the Northeast, they are therefore attempting to make Northeast a permanent fortress of occupation in this WESIA.

Eight Indian military divisions are spread in the mountain topography of Arunachal Pradesh, more are ready to be reinforced.

The Arunachalis had been made into India's defence scouts.

Manipur also had been transformed into another fortress, like the ones during the Second World War, and more than those of the early times a political-military complex had been established at Tipaimukh.

The small Imphal Airport had been enlarged beyond necessity by driving out innocent villagers nearby.

In the name of an International Airport the area had been made into a defence zone of the Indian military.

In all the nook and corners of the hills and villages in Manipur, military and police outposts had been placed.

In order to identify and monitor the people of this region, "Unique Identification Systems" had been introduced, that can make them check exactly what these indigenous peoples are doing.

"In the so called military civic action programmes all our academic persons, the people in the media and our Imas are being wooed to become their pawns in this conflict propaganda.

The culture of Leimakhong had infiltrated Manipur University.

All these influences and intrusions, the people may kindly discuss these issues and prepare for safeguarding our peoples identity, integrity and lives", the outfit appealed.

For the oppressed peoples throughout the world, the oppressed can take up arms to fight for their right to self-determination, and this had been the accepted by international law.

The gradual inducement to slavery, and the regression into slave-hood and critical dependency to India that has developed into the system has made the pople of Manipur into an oppressed class.

The nation's own economy, social systems, political life and culture had been transformed in such a way that "we feel it as our own, but it had been under the control and design of the oppressor India, that has kept us as slaves of the Indian colonial system", it alleged.

Since Manipur became India's colony, there had been a non-stopping influx of outsiders which had become a demographic and economic threat to the existence of the indigenous peoples.

This syndrome is affecting not only Manipur but the whole Western Southeast Asia (WESIA).

This has become a life or death matter of the indigenous peoples.

Before India's takeover of Tripura, the original autochthons of Tripura were 80% of the population of the state.

But after India's takeover of the control of Tripura, the percentage of Tripuris as against the influx population had been reduced to 30%.In Assam.

the influx of populations had exceeded 50 per cent of Assam's original population.

Within the next fifteen years there is a possibility of the immigrants coming into power over the land.

The economy had already been in the control of the outsiders.

This is also the incoming trend in Manipur as well.

The Indian constitution that permits the freedom of settlement of Indians anywhere and everywhere they poses a clear threat to the integrity of the indigenous peoples.

This has made the policy of unity and diversity a joke, for the diversity of the indigenous peoples are systematically getting erased.

India's alien system had turned the indigenous peoples into morally degenerate beings, and the influence of drugs, SP tablets had produced an opiate category of youths.

In this context, all able educated and rational citizens, peasants and workers, and other citizens who are little-known in the public sphere but who love the state truly and honestly must come forward to help the liberation struggle and dedicate their lives to the people's cause.

University and college teachers, doctors, lawyers, and educated women should bring about a change in peoples lives, and advise them on such a change.

The mothers of Manipur who are struggling to safeguard the integrity of the land should be strengthened with people's full participation, stated the UNLF central committee.

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