Skip to content Skip to navigation

NE rebels give R-Day boycott call

By AT News Imphal |

The United National Liberation Front of Western South-East Asian Region (UNLFW) has announced to call for an 11-hour shutdown of the region and boycott Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

While appealing to the people to boycott the event, the front in a statement said it has called for the shutdown from 6 am to 5 pm on Republic Day across the region.

The statement was signed by the top insurgent leaders of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), National Liberation Front Twipra (NLFT) and People’s Democratic Council of Karbilongri (PDCK).

The UNLFW in a statement said that this year’s Republic Day of India falls on the 26th January 2018 and various colonial government agencies are going to be pressurized into celebrating the day with pomp and ceremony in many cities and towns of WESEA region.

“Generally, only a few collaborators join them willingly and wittingly, some people witness them unwittingly, many people come reluctantly and a majority of them are lured to participate through incentives, it said.

The statement said it is purely a tool of historiographical colonialism and colonization of the mind, and that “India’s objective is to remove the true historical memories of our people from their minds and to replace them with fabricated historical narratives endorsing ethnic and racial assimilation with heartland Indian Aryans.”

The front’s statement further said the people of WESEA region have never opted for being subjects of India and they have not enjoyed republican administration in a true sense of the term, adding that Indian republic day celebrations are more prominent and conspicuous in WESEA region than in mainland India.

 

It said, “The armed struggles of our region aim to liberate the peoples of this region from Indian occupation and colonization. To translate this into reality our first and foremost task is to liberate ourselves from Indian colonization of our minds. Psychological decolonization should precede physical decolonization. Without decolonization of the mind, it is impossible to achieve political decolonization. Decolonization of the mind includes all forms of decolonization, historiographical, academic, psychological, philosophical, linguistic and epistemological.”

 

The statement said, “As a step for decolonization of mind, we, the undersigned representatives of our respective revolutionary organizations, declare to ban India’s republic day celebrations in our WESEA region. To prop up the above declaration, we call for total shutdown of the entire region for 11 hours, that is, from 6 AM to 5 PM of the day, the 26th January 2018. We call upon all peoples of this region to fully support this ban considering the urgent need to resist Indian occupation of our land. This call shall go concurrently with bans declared by other fraternal outfits of our WESEA region.”

Add new comment

Assamese Translator

Assam Times seeks English to Assamese translators!
Join our volunteer team.
Email editor@assamtimes.org.

Random Stories

Fuel's price beating nearly century

15 Sep 2018 - 4:24pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
Kokrajhar: The skyrocketing prices of fuels, essential commodities are hitting common citizens in Kokrajhar as well across the state.  On Friday, the fuel's price beating nearly century, petrol...

Three kidnappers arrested

30 Jul 2016 - 6:55pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
Salakati police apprehended three cadres of National Santhali Liberation Army (NSLA), Adivasi militant organization from Kachuabil area in Kokrajhar district late last night, who were involved with...

Gogoi mires a storm of B’deshi controversy

5 Dec 2012 - 1:54am | editor
Assam Chief Minister takes the centre of a simmering controversy when he told at a rally in Nagaon that there was not a single Bangladeshi immigrants. But later he denied saying so clearing that the...

Why the economy going down

10 Oct 2019 - 8:06am | Raktim Baruah
In the process of lifting the country’s economic state to a new high, i.e. making it a five-trillion-dollar economy in the next five years, the Narendra Modi government is now struggling to overcome...

Other Contents by Author

2 electrocuted, another hurt

Two teenage boys died while another sustained injuries after they were electrocuted at Tuikot village of Churachandpur district on Tuesday. The slain teenagers are identified as Thangminlien of Lhanjang village and Onkam of Tuilaphai village. The  injured is identified as Gogou of Dumdephai village. According to a report, the incident happened when the trio went to Tuikot village for music rehearsal for Evangelical Churches Association (ECA) Youth Golden Jubilee to be celebrated next year. The power suddenly went out while the rehearsal was in progress following which the trio tried to repair it by holding an electric post nearby when they were hit with electric shocks. The two...

Blast rocks Imphal market

An explosion occurred near Kasturi Bridge of Thangal bazaar under Imphal Police Station in the capital city this evening, but there were no casualties. The police believed the explosion that happened around 7 pm was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The blast caused some damage to nearby Mahavir Medico Pharmacy. None was hurt in the incident. Police said they were investigating the blast. In March this year, a blast near the Kasturi Bridge injured eight persons, two of them critically. Kasturi Bridge is located along the street of busy Thangal bazaar. 

Activists demand probe into Moreh killing

North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) held a candle-light vigil in Delhi University on Monday  in condolence for the recent incident of brutal shooting of a woman, Arambam Shanti in Moreh town of Manipur. NEFIS has also submitted a letter addressed to the President of India, demanding investigation of the case by an Independent Probe Team. It should be known that on May 22 at around 4.00 PM in Ward No. 4 Premnagar, Moreh, two masked men on a bike brutally killed Shanti by shooting at her. The shooting took place near an Assam Rifles camp, thereby indicating strong suspicion as to the role of Assam Rifles personnel in the shooting. According to an eyewitness, who does...

Roadblock in Moreh

Major social organisations in Moreh town bordering Myanmar has on Sunday called a 24-hour total blockade of Imphal-Moreh section of NH-102 beginning midnight of June 4 in protest against Saturday’s attack on Assam Rifles at H Mongjang. The Hill Tribal Council Moreh, the Meitei Council Moreh, the Tamil Sangam and the Gorkha Samaj in an emergency meeting strongly condemned the IED blast that occurred at H Mongjang along the Imphal-Moreh road section of NH-102 yesterday. Three personnel of 11 Assam Rifles were injured in the ambush suspected to have been carried out by militants. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far. In a press release the Moreh-based social...

Girls outshine boys in Manipur matric

Once again girls outshone boys in Manipur in the HSLC examination the result of which was declared on Saturday.Priyanka Moirangthem of Nirmalabas High School, Imphal secured the first position, Thounaojam Joylity bagged the second position and Laishram Librada Singh got the third position in the Class 10 exam. Last year, the top three positions were secured by girls from Nirmalabas and Little Flower Schools respectively with letter marks on all subjects in the High School Leaving School Certificate examination conducted by Board of Secondary School Manipur (BSEM).The pass percentage was pegged at 66.70, which showed a tad higher than last year’s 61.50 per cent. A total of 34, 8299 students...

Manipur positive on GST

Deputy Chief Minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh today stated that implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Manipur will improve its finance. He was speaking at the inaugural session of an awareness campaign on GST at the auditorium of Manipur State Film Development Society, Palace Compound here, an official release said. Implementation of GST will bid farewell to the different indirect taxes that are currently applicable in the country. Joykumar Singh,  who is also in charge of Finance, said the new tax regime going to be rolled out across the country from July 1 this year will also benefit the state in many ways. The uniform tax regime will mend the loopholes in tax...

Cong questions cattle diktat

The Manipur Congress on Sunday condemned the Central government’s new rules banning cow slaughter or consumption of beef in the country. “We condemn the general campaign against cow slaughter or consumption of beef. The move has hurt the sentiments of Muslim and tribal communities of the state,” Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) spokesperson Fazur Rahim told a press meet here at the Congress Bhavan.   The campaign has targeted the minority groups in Manipur, especially the Muslim and Christian communities, he said. “The NDA government’s ban hurt religious sentiments of the beef-eating population of Manipur, the Congress MLA reiterated. In Manipur, Muslim and tribal...

Thai delegation departs Manipur

An impressed Thai delegation leaves Manipur heaping huge praise on the north eastern people with whom they had an useful exchange of ideas. Led by Thailand Ambassador to Myanmar Jukr Boon-long, the 22-member team stressed the urgent need to extract the advantage of the look east policy. The Manipur government side was represented in the programme by PWD Minister Thongam Biswajit Singh, Consumer Affairs Minister Karam Shyam, PHED Minister Losii Dikho and Chief Secretary Oinam Nabakishore Singh. “The visit mainly aims at inspecting the Thailand-Myanmar-India trilateral highway and also avenues in expansion of Indian economy beyond its border,” Amabssador Jukr said.

Tamenglong opposes oil exploration

A community consultation on “Protection of Land, Forest and Rivers” was held at Sibilong Village and Phaitol Villages on 25th and 26th May 2017 respectively, which was jointly organized by the Zeliangrong Students Union, Manipur, Sibilong Village Authority, Phaitol Village Authority, Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur and Peace Core Team, Manipur.  The community meet was organized to promote communities rights and defense of their land, forest and rivers amidst aggressive push for extractive industries and large infrastructure projects in Tamenglong District and other parts of Manipur.  The participants of the community meets resolved to defend their land...

Former MLA Karam Thamarjit dies

Former MLA Karam Thamarjit Singh passed away following a brief illness at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi on Thursday.  He was 46. His body will be brought back to Imphal Saturday. Thamarjit Karam Memmorial Committee, Keirai Assembly Youth Congress Committee and Mahila Block Committee condoled his death. He was elected from the ticket of Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) from Keirao constituency in the 2002 assembly elections. He contested the 2017 Manipur assembly polls on Indian National Congress (INC) ticket, but had lost.