37th foundation day of PREPAK, PREPAK (Pro) : Chairman bats for unified struggle
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 08 2014: Greeting the people and party members of CorCom on the 37th foundation day of PREPAK, its chairman Nongdrenkhomba has called upon all the indigenous people of the land to unite and collectively take the fight against the common adversary.

In a statement issued to the press today, the chairman said that all the indigenous people have descended from the same ancestry and added that unity is the best gift that one can present to the upcoming generation.

He also called upon all not to misuse their might against each other.

Accusing India of sowing the seeds of division amongst the indigenous people, the chairman said that this has given birth to a communal mindset amongst the people who have all come from the same origin.

Communalism is threatening the age old ties between the people, said the statement.

Under the garb of peace talk and SoO no efforts have been spared to sow seeds of division amongst the people, said the statement and added that India is just waiting for the day when the seeds of suspicion will result in a full grown conflict between the different communities of the land and lead to the disintegration of the land and the people.

Since 1968 the Indian rulers have been concentrating on the region since the early part of the 1960s which gave birth to the armed movement of the Mizos, the Nagas, Tripuris and Kangleipak, said PREPAK.

The chairman recalled February 28, 1966 when the Mizo National Front successfully launched Operation Jericho and the declaration of independence in March, the Naga plebiscite and the manner in which China and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) were sounded to give shelter, arms training and supply arms to those who took up arms against India to fight for freedom.

It was at this point of time that the Prime Minister of India at the level of the Cabinet Secretariat formed RAW and other spy agencies, said PREPAK.

It was under the same agenda that the jungle warfare training centre was set up for the Indian Army at Vairengte in Mizoram in May 1970 .

It was in 1972 that India engineered the split of East Pakistan from Pakistan and helped form Bangladesh to fight the movement for sovereignty in the North East region, said the statement.

Simultaneously, India had a hand in helping many Chakma, Muslim and Hindu refugees to settle in the region, alleged the outfit.

It was in line with this agenda that the Government of India drew up the general amnesty for Kangleipak as well as other accords such as Naga accord and Mizo accord.

The agenda of the Government of India however did not yield fruits save for the Mizo accord, said PREPAK.

India has since then been taking up different strategies to defeat the armed movement from 1980 and again from 1990, claimed the outfit.

The Government of India also adopted the four principles of Arthashastra of Kautilya to keep the people under subjugation.

Thus began the communal card from the 1980s, said PREPAK and added that some communities were openly and clandestinely instigated with arms and even economic inducements.

This soon led to the open invitations to dialogue and to settle the issue within the Constitution of India.

All the strategies adopted by India are to defeat the liberation movement, alleged the outfit and added that India soon began enticing others with offers of peace talk and encouraging communal mindsets.

Within the framework of the Constitution of India, the Government of India began to dangle such promises as district autonomy, State autonomy, homeland, greater State and in the process divide the people.

SoO and peace talk are also part and parcel of the communal agenda cooked up by the Government of India, it alleged and added that there is no guarantee that communal cards have not been issued under the garb of SoO and peace talk.

The agenda of India will not succeed with the true sons of the soil, but it will with those self proclaimed leaders who have been hankering only after self interest, said the statement.

All need to be wary of the agenda championed by such elements who thrive on playing the communal card.

Communal distrust can only work to the advantage of the common foe, said the outfit and added that it is only the enemy of the people who will fall in line with those championing communal divides.

That the people of India still view the people of the North East with distrust can be gauged by the recent incident in which the people of the region were not allowed to meet the president of China Xi Jinping on September 17, it said and added that India still clings to the advice of Sardar Patel who advised all to treat the people of the North East with suspicion.

The outfit further said that the only way to strengthen all is to revive the age old ties amongst the people.

The foundation of India is expansionism and this line of thought has been championed by communal mindsets, alleged the outfit.

The fruit of such a mindset can be gauged from the mutual suspicion along Hindu-Muslim divide.

Stating that communalism has seeped into all levels of the mindset of the people of India, PREPAK said that even today different people, particularly people from WESEA are addressed condescendingly in Delhi.

On top of the communal card played by India, there is the continued imposition of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the region and in Jammu and Kashmir.

Stating that AFSPA is by itself discriminatory, the outfit said that till today the Government of India has not deemed it fit to impose the Act in parts of India where the Maoists are active.

This despite the fact that killings and violence have become the hallmark of the regions where the Maoists are active.

That AFSPA has been imposed in the region testifies the communal mindset of the Government of India, alleged PREPAK.

The outfit further said that the movement in the North East is a historical right and something which has been recognised by the United Nations.

Even the Supreme Court has not questioned why AFSPA has been implemented in the region.

The outfit also dismissed the Look East Policy as just another game plan of the Centre to hoodwink the people.

Talking about the Look East Policy without addressing the basic points in the region is the proof of this, it added.

LEP will not benefit the people of the region but reduce it to a dumping place, added the outfit.

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