Imphal, Aug 30: Taking pot shots at what it dubbed as the cheap propaganda of the security force, the proscribed UNLF today said that since India has not been able to militarily defeat the outfit, it has taken recourse to various forms of propaganda to discredit the UNLF.

In a statement issued to the press today, the outfit said that so desperate has the security force become that it even used the photos of the rally staged by the Women Action for Development under the theme "Violence against Women" to make it look like it was staged against the UNLF.

The general secretary of WAD addressed the media on August 24 and questioned who was behind the false propaganda, recalled UNLF and added that it will not take a genius to work out who was behind the drama.

Earlier too, the security force had used the name of a hill based student organisation to put up anti-UNLF posters at the club building of Andro, said the outfit and added that since the juvenile tactics of the security force was known to all, UNLF had taken the matter lightly.

However the time has now come to rip off the mask to expose the agenda of the security force, added the statement.

At the moment, the security force along with other agencies of the Indian Government are working over time to discredit the UNLF and paint it as a terrorist organisation before the international community.

The other strategy is to buy some support by giving some temporary promises and getting them to work against the UNLF, it added.

After the NSCN (IM) was tamed with the offer of the peace talk, the security force declared cessation of hostilities with some hill based organisations and has started using these groups against the UNLF, said the outfit and added that the lack of unity amongst the people has helped the enemy to pursue its policy of divide and rule.

It was this lack of unity that enabled the security force to enter Parbung and Tipaikmukh areas in the early part of this year, observed the outfit and added that to further sow the seeds of division, the allegations of mass rape of Hmar girls were cooked up by the security force along with their collaborators.

The suggestion of the UNLF that the matter be probed by an independent body like the ICRC was put aside, said the statement.

Instead what was seen was the probe conducted by the National Commission of Women.

Instead of sincerely trying to look into the matter, charges were heaped on the UNLF to discredit it.

The repeated attempt to discredit the UNLF also exposed their hidden agenda, maintained the statement.

The propaganda adopted by the security force to discredit the UNLF by using the rally staged by the WAD has boomeranged on them just like the surrender fiasco that was witnessed.

What the people should be wary of is the racist attitude of the security force towards the people of Manipur, said UNLF.

To the security force, the Mongoloid people can be used as human shields and to further their agenda, charged the outfit.

In their effort to portray the Indo-Manipur conflict in the wrong light, the security force has adopted numerous propaganda, asserted the outfit and claimed that the recent bomb attack at ISKCON was nothing but an attempt by the Indian agencies to put Manipur on the map of global terrorism.

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