KYKL observes 26th martyrs’ day

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Aug 18 : The proscribed KYKL observed the 26th martyrs’ day at its first, second and third battalions, different units, transit camps and different places of Kangleipak today.
A press release issued by the outfit’s publicity and research secretary A Yaiphaba said that the martyrs’ day is observed every year on August 18 in honour of all those people who had made the supreme sacrifice in the course of the ongoing ‘freedom movement’.
The main function of the martyrs’ day was held at the outfit’s first battalion with MYL CO Cpt Dhana and MFL’s chief of army staff H Ibomcha as functional president and chief guest respectively.
Lt Col Ingba of MYL and MFL G3 M Robin too attended the function as guests of honour.
The function was opened by pulling down the outfit’s flag to half-mast which was followed by offering of floral tributes to the martyrs and observance of two minutes silence.
Speaking at the gathering, Lt Col Ingba underscored the importance of understanding the Government of India’s new strategies.
Comparing India to a fascist State, Lt Col Ingba alleged that New Delhi has been conspiring to exterminate all indigenous people of Kangleipak by using both soft and hard tools.
New Delhi’s intention is testified by the abrogation of Article 370, bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir into two territories and the vigorous push for CAB, Ingba said.
People of Kangleipak need to fight back all these new strategies of India collectively by strengthening the resistance movement and carrying forward the liberation movement, Lt Col Ingba said.
MFL chief of army staff H Ibomcha compared the Indian rule to a cultural bomb.
Mainstream  Indian culture and the ideology of Hindutva have been bombarding Kangleipak with a sinister design to destroy the identity, history  and cultures of all indigenous people, Ibomcha alleged.   
The saffron brigade (RSS and BJP) has been pursuing a mission of ‘colonisation of the mind’.
Political liberation will come on its own once the people are free from ‘colonisation of the mind’, Ibomcha asserted.
MFL G3 M Robin asserted that preserving one’s identity and culture is the foundation of true freedom.
Capt Dhana appealed all to follow the footsteps of all those martyrs so as to restore the lost sovereignty of  Kangleipak and set up an egalitarian society.