Manipur is not a Nation that just comes up yesterday. Many centuries before 33 A.D. till before 15 October 1949 maximum of all those periods were an independent nation. Had many significant symbolic examples for an independent Nation-State governing powerfully and also had its independent judiciary system.
Not only the developed governing system, an independent self-sufficient and adequately supporting economy system also there to meet as the situation and time necessity. The economy in the independent period had gone differently compared to a dependent colonized situation. Our productivity systems had slowly contaminated to death in the colonial British period with a slavery economy system. Manipur was living abundantly and self-sufficiently without any aid or support from others but after the forcibly colonized by India, Manipur gradually had to purchase alimental stuff, bit by bit from India to meet the needs.
Eastern settlers Myanmar was once one of the most powerful has had many a conflict once and again was created history by people of that period for Manipur in the eastern border is still there had not erased at all. If small in size, these accountabilities are the exact example that we were once an independent nation if anyone went through not only in our history but also in the world. A new step of civilization had seen after the Manipur Kings developed relations with the West. But what we have become and facing today is the presentation of the Indian and Western cultural civilization that we had closely acquainted with.
The Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) and its army, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has been conducting an armed struggle since 1978, for the liberation of Manipur from the illegal and illegitimate annexation and subsequent military occupation by the Government of India.
DEEPLY CONCERNED over the flagrant violation of the international humanitarian law standards by the armed forces of the Government of India occupying Manipur, despite being one of the high contracting parties to all the four Geneva Conventions of August 12,1949.
REAFFIRMING its own humanitarian obligation and moral commitment as an armed national liberation movement.
HEREBY DECLARE, on this day the 6th of August 1997, its unequivocal intention to comply with all the provisions of Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.
Irengbam Chaoren
President,
Revolutionary People’s Front, Manipur.
