IMPHAL, Mar 10: The Revolutionary People`™s Front, in a strongly worded press release today blasted the State Home Minister, Gaikhangam, for claiming its armed wing People`™s Liberation Army, PLA, was responsible for the February 5 morning bomb blast near Nambasi which resulted in the death of Adison Jajo, 36, and wounding of Hitler Keishing, 34.
The release said this was only to be expected of a puppet government playing to the tune of its masters in New Delhi who are determined to sow the seed of division amongst fraternal communities of the State.
It said the RPF and PLA has never hidden its achievements or failures in the past, and has always had the courage to admit to costly mistakes it has made. This was the case in the August 14, 2003 Lilong Bridge blast, and the December 16, 2007 Pourabi blast both of which caused immense casualties amongst ordinary folks.
The RPF and PLA still would not hide its mistake it said, reiterating that neither the RPF or PLA were responsible for the Nambasi blast, as alleged senselessly by Gaikhangam.
It further alleged that the bomb was probably planted by the Indian Army to confuse the people and tarnish the image of revolutionary organisations such as the RPF who are fighting for the liberation of the land from colonial yoke.
It said this ploy is not new, and in 2006, after a series of bomb blasts went off along the Lilong to Singjamei stretch of the road, the State`™s intelligentsia came to guess it would not be feasible for any underground organisation to do this, and that the needle of suspicion would have to point towards the security forces.
Again, it reminded that the recent recovery of eight skulls and skeletons at Tombisana High School campus where once the CRPF was stationed, is another proof of the secret missions of the security forces.
The skeletal remains were accidentally recovered while digging at the place to build a shopping complex, it further recalled.
The release said truth can never be hidden forever, and however secretly these murderous operations are carried out, someday or the other, they will come to public light. Giving example, it said even similar activities of the mighty USA in its Guantanamo Bay and Abu Graib detention centres, where under trial prisoners were tortured and murdered, came to light and earned the USA universal condemnation.
It claimed the USA punished its officials responsible for these atrocities, but in India, all such offender are allowed to go scot free. At best the eye wash of commissions are formed to dilute the issues and if this does not succeed, compensations of a few lakh rupees are paid to families of the victims, as if there is a monitory price for life.
It said in the past, these secret operations are carried out by local puppets, such as a Manipuri Major in the Indian Army once posted at the hillock inside the Manipur University campus.
The release appealed to the people to be wary of these puppets and their operations. It also appealed to the people to support the revolution being waged by the RPF for the freedom of the land its people.