Call for Independence Day boycott

IMPHAL | Aug 10

Various insurgents of WESEA have called for a total ban of Independence Day in the region and called for total shut-down of the entire region for 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm on the day, the August 15.

Observance of Indian Independence Day is one of the symbolic instruments, sacred for mainland Indians, but malicious to the colonized peripheral non-Indians and celebration of such occasions can create a false consciousness of enjoying political freedom in the minds of subjugated people, said a joint press release signed by secretary publicity and research, KYKL, A. Yaiphaba, publicity secretary, HNLC, Sainkupar Nongtraw, president, KCP, Ksh. Laba Meitei, Chairman, KLO, Jiban Singh Koch, chairman, KYKL N. Oken, general secretary, NDFB, B. R. Ferengga, organizing secretary,NLFT, Sengphui Borok, and chairman, PDCK, J. K. Lijang.

With the departure of the British colonial masters, the new country embarked upon an ambitious project of occupation of the rim-lands. Thus a new India was forged as an unnatural union or as an expansionist freak and it became a “prison-house of nations,” it added.

The present-day descendants of Gandhi have no qualms in using the ultimate forms of violence – like annexation of new territories, state-terrorism under AFSPA, collective fine, rape with immunity etc, it further charged.

To reinforce their hegemony over the peripheral non-Indians, in addition to the hard violent tools, they use soft ones like education, mass media, films, literature, arts and culture, and symbolic instruments like the national flag, national anthems, observation of national days, celebration of national festivals, and ritual obeisance to national heroes etc, it alleged.

The objective is to manufacture consent of the subjugated peoples in an easier way, in order to facilitate assimilation, or in reality, ethnocide of the rim-land nations, it further said. Using uncivilized and sometimes, inhuman tools, the entire WESEA region have been subjected to forceful occupation of the mainland Indian regime, it added.

To resist Indian occupation and hegemony, almost all communities of this WESEA region have risen up in arms and armed struggle is still going on, it further said. In order to successfully materialize the total ban, the mentioned organisations have called upon all peoples of this subjugated region to do the needful to make it a success, it added.

IMPHAL | Aug 10

Various insurgents of WESEA have called for a total ban of Independence Day in the region and called for total shut-down of the entire region for 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm on the day, the August 15.

Observance of Indian Independence Day is one of the symbolic instruments, sacred for mainland Indians, but malicious to the colonized peripheral non-Indians and celebration of such occasions can create a false consciousness of enjoying political freedom in the minds of subjugated people, said a joint press release signed by secretary publicity and research, KYKL, A. Yaiphaba, publicity secretary, HNLC, Sainkupar Nongtraw, president, KCP, Ksh. Laba Meitei, Chairman, KLO, Jiban Singh Koch, chairman, KYKL N. Oken, general secretary, NDFB, B. R. Ferengga, organizing secretary,NLFT, Sengphui Borok, and chairman, PDCK, J. K. Lijang.

With the departure of the British colonial masters, the new country embarked upon an ambitious project of occupation of the rim-lands. Thus a new India was forged as an unnatural union or as an expansionist freak and it became a “prison-house of nations,” it added.

The present-day descendants of Gandhi have no qualms in using the ultimate forms of violence – like annexation of new territories, state-terrorism under AFSPA, collective fine, rape with immunity etc, it further charged.

To reinforce their hegemony over the peripheral non-Indians, in addition to the hard violent tools, they use soft ones like education, mass media, films, literature, arts and culture, and symbolic instruments like the national flag, national anthems, observation of national days, celebration of national festivals, and ritual obeisance to national heroes etc, it alleged.

The objective is to manufacture consent of the subjugated peoples in an easier way, in order to facilitate assimilation, or in reality, ethnocide of the rim-land nations, it further said. Using uncivilized and sometimes, inhuman tools, the entire WESEA region have been subjected to forceful occupation of the mainland Indian regime, it added.

To resist Indian occupation and hegemony, almost all communities of this WESEA region have risen up in arms and armed struggle is still going on, it further said. In order to successfully materialize the total ban, the mentioned organisations have called upon all peoples of this subjugated region to do the needful to make it a success, it added.

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