Speech delivered by Pu PS Haokip, President KNO on an emergency Meeting with KNO, ZRO, HPC (D) & Frontal Organisation such as Zomi Council, Kuki Inpi Churachandpur, Hmar Inpui, Mizo People Council, Simte Tribe Union, Gangte Tribe Union, Hmar Youth Association, Kuki Khanglai Lompi, Zomi Youth Association, Young Mizo Association, KSO Churachandpur, Hmar Student Association, YMA, CoPTAM, KSDC etc. on 1st September, 2015 at Simte Youth Organisation Hall, Simveng Churachandpur.
My beloved people
I give you my highest respect! I also give my great respect to our respected young martyrs Gollhang H. Paulianmang of Dorcas Veng, Gollhang Pausuanlian, of Vengnuam, Gollhang Thangzalian of Hiangtam Lamka, Gollhang Nehlalsoun Belam Veng and Gollhang Enkhenkhup, of Gouchinkhup Veng. I extend my deepest condolences to the bereaved families. I am sure their sacrifices will never go in vain, for we the people will not allow them to have died in vain. I also give my great respect to the many wounded defenders of our land and all the brave volunteers who had expressed their intolerance of any compromise on our rights to our land.
Sopiteho, today, let us reason together. Let us ask ourselves what we need to do to salvage our right as a people and our rights over our land. Do we still squabble and find our petty reasons to be disunited? Or do we come together forgiving each other of past mistakes and join hands to fight for our rights to our own land and government to be recognized. You the people, I am elated to note, have shown the way.
You have made great political statements. You have affirmed our oneness as a people, sharing common threats and common future.
Our lands were never a part of Manipur Kingdom. The Maharaja of Manipur had ceded his 700 odd square miles of territory to the Indian state. The British had placed our lands under a separate administrative arrangement recognizing our rights and our needs as a people. Even Independent India had made provisions for protection of our land and people. But these have been proved inadequate.
We have been targeted with neglect and discrimination. All funds meant for our development have either been diverted or misappropriated by the Meitei majority and their clones. For all these years, we have suffered injustice and now it has become intolerable. Not satisfied with depriving us of our developmental rights, they are now planning to snatch our land by calling us foreigners.
They arbitrarily have passed a bill which will uproot those of us whose villages were not in their records since 1951. I am telling them today, and I want us to tell them that we dont need them to record that we lived in our lands much before their government intruded onto our lands.
This government and their militants are but hand in glove. In their grand design to grab our land, they violated our territories, raped our women, used our helpless as forced labour, planted landmines in our land, and set up terror camps within our territories. They use tear gas rubber bullets to disperse protesters in the valley, but real bullets and grenades when we protest. They targeted our vehicles during their hartals while letting valley vehicles pass.
Brothers, it is time we realize that we can no longer be under one roof with this monster majority community. We need our own government over our land and people. United, we can achieve it.
It is time we pool all our resources together. The representatives we sent to their Assembly must resign forthwith. If it is proven they betrayed our land, we will not allow them to be public life anymore. It is time to unite under one identity, have one army and strive for our right. I urge my fellow comrades in arm in the UPF and KNO that we must sit down and unite, and I urge the people to rise up in demanding for a separate stateZogam or Zalengam..as per your wishes.
God Bless our UnityGod Bless Zale’n-gam/Zogam!!
-PS Haokip
My beloved people
I give you my highest respect! I also give my great respect to our respected young martyrs Gollhang H. Paulianmang of Dorcas Veng, Gollhang Pausuanlian, of Vengnuam, Gollhang Thangzalian of Hiangtam Lamka, Gollhang Nehlalsoun Belam Veng and Gollhang Enkhenkhup, of Gouchinkhup Veng. I extend my deepest condolences to the bereaved families. I am sure their sacrifices will never go in vain, for we the people will not allow them to have died in vain. I also give my great respect to the many wounded defenders of our land and all the brave volunteers who had expressed their intolerance of any compromise on our rights to our land.
Sopiteho, today, let us reason together. Let us ask ourselves what we need to do to salvage our right as a people and our rights over our land. Do we still squabble and find our petty reasons to be disunited? Or do we come together forgiving each other of past mistakes and join hands to fight for our rights to our own land and government to be recognized. You the people, I am elated to note, have shown the way.
You have made great political statements. You have affirmed our oneness as a people, sharing common threats and common future.
Our lands were never a part of Manipur Kingdom. The Maharaja of Manipur had ceded his 700 odd square miles of territory to the Indian state. The British had placed our lands under a separate administrative arrangement recognizing our rights and our needs as a people. Even Independent India had made provisions for protection of our land and people. But these have been proved inadequate.
We have been targeted with neglect and discrimination. All funds meant for our development have either been diverted or misappropriated by the Meitei majority and their clones. For all these years, we have suffered injustice and now it has become intolerable. Not satisfied with depriving us of our developmental rights, they are now planning to snatch our land by calling us foreigners.
They arbitrarily have passed a bill which will uproot those of us whose villages were not in their records since 1951. I am telling them today, and I want us to tell them that we dont need them to record that we lived in our lands much before their government intruded onto our lands.
This government and their militants are but hand in glove. In their grand design to grab our land, they violated our territories, raped our women, used our helpless as forced labour, planted landmines in our land, and set up terror camps within our territories. They use tear gas rubber bullets to disperse protesters in the valley, but real bullets and grenades when we protest. They targeted our vehicles during their hartals while letting valley vehicles pass.
Brothers, it is time we realize that we can no longer be under one roof with this monster majority community. We need our own government over our land and people. United, we can achieve it.
It is time we pool all our resources together. The representatives we sent to their Assembly must resign forthwith. If it is proven they betrayed our land, we will not allow them to be public life anymore. It is time to unite under one identity, have one army and strive for our right. I urge my fellow comrades in arm in the UPF and KNO that we must sit down and unite, and I urge the people to rise up in demanding for a separate stateZogam or Zalengam..as per your wishes.
God Bless our UnityGod Bless Zale’n-gam/Zogam!!
-PS Haokip
