Colonial India must respect human rights: CorCom

IMPHAL | Dec 10

The proscribed umbrella organisation CorCom in a message on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day said it shares the hardships of the people who are suffering from living under India’s colonial rule and whose rights have been snatched.

A release signed by media coordinator Ksh. Yoiheiba said the organisation also stands for all the people in the world who are fighting for their human rights. The colonial master India must cease violating the rights of the people in the State and must respect human rights, it said. 

Though the world has crossed a new millennium and is going through many changes, the social administrative system is stilled filled with many loopholes and due to the colonial rule, many people, and communities are deprived or their basic human rights, the release continued. Ways of dividing people and lives, obliteration of communities through oppression, massacre, genocide and religious war, breeding hate towards other community, race have increased rate of violation of humans rights in a massive scale, it further said.   

It added that state terrorism caused by the colonisers has made the region into a battle zone and affected many budding youths turning them into drug addicts, exposing them to HIV- AIDS, the release said adding this has severely affected the natural order of things and ways living a peaceful life.

As the director general, UNESCO, Federico Mayor have stated, the only means to ensure all the human rights of the people and letting them perform their duties is to completely root out all the differences and conflicts amongst the communities of a country, thereby ushering in a long-lasting, life of peace, the release said.  

Human rights are the most basic necessities of living and the progress of the world and its people who had thriving since many decades are all founded upon it, it continued. The most important of them all is the right to freedom, it said. Human kind seeks a life of dignity and security, based on the mentioned right and therefore it has been sought by all, the release continued. On December 10, 1948, it was declared by the United Nations General Assembly that every human being has the right to life, right to live in an independent society and economy.   

An International Bill on Human Rights was created and followed by taking up the protocols of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the release further said.

However, in Manipur the human rights, right to self determination under an independent economy has been denied and the people have been kept oppressed, it alleged.

The rights granted by the constitution of India exist merely in paper only, it said. The Indian army has been committing genocide by giving them the “Licence to kill,” it said. India soldier have been given what they want by implementing “AFSPA-1958” which directly defy International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966, it continued. 

Ever since the right to self determination was snatched away by the colonial rule, it seems the very right no longer exist at all. The struggles taken, which are of utmost importance to reclaim those rights are made to look like something wrongful, it added.

The war of Independence fought for the sake of our rights, which had been stolen by India, is accepted by the world and granted by the UN, it said. If we set aside all our differences and become united under one single force to take equal measures, then our goals will be achieved, the release concluded.

IMPHAL | Dec 10

The proscribed umbrella organisation CorCom in a message on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day said it shares the hardships of the people who are suffering from living under India’s colonial rule and whose rights have been snatched.

A release signed by media coordinator Ksh. Yoiheiba said the organisation also stands for all the people in the world who are fighting for their human rights. The colonial master India must cease violating the rights of the people in the State and must respect human rights, it said. 

Though the world has crossed a new millennium and is going through many changes, the social administrative system is stilled filled with many loopholes and due to the colonial rule, many people, and communities are deprived or their basic human rights, the release continued. Ways of dividing people and lives, obliteration of communities through oppression, massacre, genocide and religious war, breeding hate towards other community, race have increased rate of violation of humans rights in a massive scale, it further said.   

It added that state terrorism caused by the colonisers has made the region into a battle zone and affected many budding youths turning them into drug addicts, exposing them to HIV- AIDS, the release said adding this has severely affected the natural order of things and ways living a peaceful life.

As the director general, UNESCO, Federico Mayor have stated, the only means to ensure all the human rights of the people and letting them perform their duties is to completely root out all the differences and conflicts amongst the communities of a country, thereby ushering in a long-lasting, life of peace, the release said.  

Human rights are the most basic necessities of living and the progress of the world and its people who had thriving since many decades are all founded upon it, it continued. The most important of them all is the right to freedom, it said. Human kind seeks a life of dignity and security, based on the mentioned right and therefore it has been sought by all, the release continued. On December 10, 1948, it was declared by the United Nations General Assembly that every human being has the right to life, right to live in an independent society and economy.   

An International Bill on Human Rights was created and followed by taking up the protocols of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the release further said.

However, in Manipur the human rights, right to self determination under an independent economy has been denied and the people have been kept oppressed, it alleged.

The rights granted by the constitution of India exist merely in paper only, it said. The Indian army has been committing genocide by giving them the “Licence to kill,” it said. India soldier have been given what they want by implementing “AFSPA-1958” which directly defy International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966, it continued. 

Ever since the right to self determination was snatched away by the colonial rule, it seems the very right no longer exist at all. The struggles taken, which are of utmost importance to reclaim those rights are made to look like something wrongful, it added.

The war of Independence fought for the sake of our rights, which had been stolen by India, is accepted by the world and granted by the UN, it said. If we set aside all our differences and become united under one single force to take equal measures, then our goals will be achieved, the release concluded.

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