DIMAPUR — Yung
Aung-led NSCN/GPRN and ULFA (Independent) have called a boycott and general
strike of the Indian Republic Day celebration on January 26 in all WESEA
region.
In a joint statement, NSCN/GPRN and ULFA (I) stated that the
Western South East Asia (WESEA) has never been a part of India either by choice
or by conquest. It added that even after seven and half decades of domination,
the people of WESEA region are still awaiting the fulfillment of commitment in
the UN charters to exercise their right to freedom.
It stated that as long as the international community does
not take any concrete action to bring an end to the illegal occupation, the
region will continue to suffer atrocities in the hands of the India armed
forces.
It also stated that unfurling her alien flag in an occupied
region is not a sign of India’s strength but rather a symptom of tyranny, greed
and betrayal saying that colonialism still exist in its cruelest form in the
21st century.
“How can India claimed to be the largest democracy while
terrorising our land and people for the last many decades? It is undemocratic
to turn our region into graveyards. As victims of India’s terrorism, our people
have demonstrated their remarkable resilience and strength because this
struggle is not just a matter of our national identity but also a matter of
right to exist as enshrined in the international law,” the statement read.
The NSCN/GPRN and ULFA (I) have called upon the people of
WESEA to denounce the ongoing suppression, exploitation and injustice over the
land and support its boycott call by refraining from the imposed celebration.
It further informed that the total ban would be effective in
the ‘so-called’ states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
