IMPHAL, January 23: The United National Liberation Front of WESEA (UNLFW), a conglomerate of Coordination Committee (CorCom), Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) and Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) has boycotted celebration of the forthcoming Indian Republic Day in WESEA Region on January 26, by imposing sanctions to all official and non-official programmes for the same.
A statement signed by Ksh Yoiheiba, Media Coordinator of CorCom representing UNLFW also called a total shutdown in the region from 1 pm to 8 pm on the day. Emergency services, media and religious activities may continue unhindered during the period, it said.
It pointed out that in pushing for the totality of the Indian Dominion; the GOI is pursuing a hegemonic colonial policy in the region to assimilate all the distinct culture, people and territories to India forever.
“™Our land and territories are constantly ravaged; our indigenous people`™s very existence is being threatened with the ever increasing influx of Indian migrants. Thus, to survive and enable to live with dignity, our people are compelled to take up arms to liberate ourselves from Indian occupation. On the other hand, Indian establishment is using all its military might, both hardware and software in suppressing the struggle for the right to self-determination of our indigenous peoples,`™`™ it stated.
The statement said the front`™s chance to defeat India`™s nefarious design is to nurture WESEA compact with a positive symbiosis with innovative and modern federated geo-political identity in contrast to Indian brand of sham federal set up with her own admission of being a truly unitary State in reality.
Reiterating that there is no reason for WESEA to honour India`™s Republic Day, the UNLFW said it is the duty of all its citizens to introspect and analyse Indian policy on the region against the philosophy of the indigenous identities in a WESEA compact and work towards the finality of dislodging Indian occupation from the region.
It called upon the citizens to make a strong, clear message and protest against the imposed celebration of Republic Day.