Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 10 2009:
Various insurgent outfits operating in North Eastern Region have called upon the people of the region to "boycott and prevent the celebration, in any manner, of the Independence Day in the Region on August 15".The outfits also announced that they will observe a general strike on that day throughout the region from 1 am to 06:30 pm.
A press release jointly issued by Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), Tripura Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF) and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) stated that in previous years they had observed that "despite negative internal factors, the liberation struggles in the region are moving ahead while India's 'ceasefires' and 'peace talks' (without any basis for a satisfactory political solution of the conflict) as supplementary means to military repression for defeating the struggles have exposed their own failure".
"The return of the NDFB to the fold of liberation struggle has set the trend to defeat India's game plan.
Now the national liberation struggles should be consolidated, strengthened and intensified while the fragmentation of the Region on exclusive ethnic lines under the Indian system should give way to a dialectical process of inclusive unity based on the Region's independent existence," the press release asserted.
The joint press release called on the people to make the boycott and general strike a complete success.