Chaoren’s message to the people – (II)

IMPHAL | Sept 25

India’s annexation of Manipur is a blatant violation of international norms on respecting the sovereignty of states and it has been the fundamental moot point and cause for the armed liberation struggle, continued the release signed by the president, Revolutionary People’s Front, Irengbam Chaoren.

There is no denying the fact that each one of us has been incessantly contributing towards the collective cause from multiple fronts, it said.  The peasants, the workers and the daily wage earners have never shied away from their basic struggle for survival and support for the downtrodden masses, it continued adding the endeavours of the artists and sports persons to show the world their worth have reaffirmed the inspirational Manipuri national pride.

The Mothers and sisters, fellow countrymen and friends, and the youth and students have proven records of being an interventionist on the fast degrading morale, culture and political malaise that confront our society today with a sense of deep concern for a better future, it added.

Further the release said the longing for a better tomorrow is closely intertwined with the question of liberation struggle. Till date only a handful armed revolutionary soldiers have taken the responsibility and traded on the path liberating Manipur with an ambition to place itself in the galaxy of prosperous sovereign independent nation-states, it said adding however, the restoration of Manipur’s independent status is ought to be a collective responsibility of every Manipuri.

Waging a revolutionary war against a numerically advantaged enemy has been an enormous challenge since the revolutionary army is constituted of a smaller size and strength, it said. In addition, the reactionary and counter-revolutionary activities of the native police personnel have equally come as a bigger stumbling block to the revolutionary struggle, it maintained.

RPF believes that liberation is the lone option to ensure a dignified existence of the Manipuris, it continued. Today, our people are made to think as if they cannot survive without the grant-in-aid support system of India which is nothing but a colonial orchestration developed in the course of prolonged Indian colonization, it said.

 Rampant violation of human rights, deprivation of justice and infusion of communal distrust amongst us has come to constitute the standing pillars of India’s colonialism, it continued.  The colonial designs have purposefully frustrated our prospective youths with abundant distractions through easier access to drugs, alien culture and sustained economic disempowerment, it added.

The time is ripe to unmask the puppet regime in the state constituted by our fellow Manipuris whose fundamental role has been to implant the colonial slave-master make-beliefs under the garb of developmentalism and progress, it further said adding it would be an utter misjudgement on our part to be blind from such a colonial reality.

It must be our historical responsibility to stop the colonial forces from indulging into playing with the aspirations of our people which otherwise would result into a long term parasitism of our future generations on the alien power, it added.

The message of the RPF president further read there is increasing need to prepare ourselves to be able to grapple with the new found trends and culture at the global terrain. What should be the basis for our exposure to such global winds of change is hardly going to be a simplified equation, it added.

In the wake of capitalist of onslaught all across the globe, to work out a protective shield on the one hand and participation in the modern development roadmap on the other hand is to be carefully done as the onus lies with us, it said.