All ‘pan’ movements are fascist : PREPAK

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Oct 8 : The proscribed PREPAK has categorically stated that all ‘pan’ or greater land movements, except those focused on cultural unification, may be considered fascist or dictatorial.
A statement issued by PREPAK Interim Council Chairman Aheiba Angom on the occasion of the outfit’s 48th foundation day remarked that Adolf Hitler’s ‘Lebensraum Theory’ of Germany that was severely crushed in Europe might well be compared with the theory of some homogenous communities to create a homeland by unifying lands they inhabit.
Nonetheless, that theory had caused widespread sufferings and devastation not only in Germany but also across Europe and other places in the world.  
Hitler, who was far more powerful, had implemented this theory but not a single ‘Pan’ movement has ever succeeded during the past 10,000 years of human history.
“We could have cultural relations with those living outside but once the Pan movement theory is agreed, we would have become second Hitler or Little Hitler. We shouldn’t become little Hitler for Greater Mizoram, Greater Nagaland or Greater Kukiland as the great Hitler had faced crushing defeat. Don’t apply wrong theory,” Aheiba Angom said.
Aheiba Angom’s statement pointed out that about 39 different communities are settled in Kangleipak.
However, Chin-Kuki-Zo groups have leveraged communal narratives to foster artificial divisions among communities, often driven by their academics and elites, with an aim to establish a homeland across parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh, it said.
The statement said that India is making friends with the ethnic minority groups in the south-western parts of Myanmar, Chin and Rakhine States in order to counter China.  This is the simple reason why India has not curbed the illegal influx of Chin refugees from Myanmar, known as Kuki or Zo in Kangleipak, since the 1960s. India has also done the least to prevent them from poppy cultivation and drug smuggling.
India is allowing the Chins to freely indulge in offensive actions so that their activities in Myanmar wouldn’t be impeded. As Indo-China conflict is bound to increase day by day, India cannot afford to openly block the agenda of the Kuki-Chin-Zo militants to create a homeland. As such, it remains a question whether Meeteis would be able to travel along the National Highways, read the statement.
With the intention of reviving the Kaladan Project, India is closely working together with the armed Chin and Arakan rebel groups with the help of the Chief Minister of Mizoram and its MP, it alleged. The objective is to disrupt Chinese activities and influence in Kangleipak and the North Eastern region, and to advance Indian infrastructure, it said.
Two years and five months after violence erupted in Kangleipak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on September 13, 2025, failed to yield a substantive roadmap for restoring normalcy.
Specifically, the visit did not address reopening the long-blocked National Highways, facilitating the return of the 60,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their homes, or resolving the Suspension of Operations (SoO) issue necessary for securing permanent peace, Aheiba Angom said.
He (Modi) appeared unmoved about the sufferings of the people of Kangleipak, and believed that some projects or economic package would silence them. His speech did not particularly mention any word to rebuild the bridge of love and harmony between the two communities that had been shattered, the PREPAK leader remarked.
The recent visit of India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to Kangleipak was apparently not to bring peace and development but was a part of their systematic policies to strengthen the alleged colonial dominance by worsening the already chaotic situation caused by the proxy war, Aheiba Angom alleged.
After its alleged annexation by India, the political status of Kangleipak underwent frequent changes.
Beginning as an occupied territory designated a Part ‘C’ State, it progressed through various administrative forms: an Advisory Council (1953), a Territorial Council (1956), and finally, a Union Territory (1963). Kangleipak was ultimately granted Statehood in 1972.
Soon after the alleged annexation, Kangleipak which had existed as an Asiatic Sovereign State for centuries was reduced to a mere Part ‘C’ State under a Chief Commissioner.
As a result, Kangleipak lost the opportunity to establish its own political centre.
The political centre that existed in Kangleipak was effectively shifted to Delhi. Although Kangleipak was finally granted Statehood on January 21, 1972, in conjunction with the North Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, the simultaneous enactment of Article 371-C created numerous new impediments, read the statement.
Although it was granted Statehood in 1972, Kangleipak has never been a full-fledged State, a fact clearly established by Article 371-C.
Article 371-C severely impaired the effective functioning of the Legislative Assembly, preventing it from fully exercising its legislative, executive, and political powers.
“As a result, India has denied us the opportunity to freely deliberate on potential paths to development”, Aheiba Angom said.
He also questioned the significance of the buffer zone in the context of peace restoration efforts.
The buffer zone is not merely a security measure but also carries a political agenda, as its line appears to be politically identified with the ethnic divide.
The former Chief Minister’s statement upon returning from Delhi—that Home Minister Amit Shah would oversee the hills while the CM was tasked with managing the valley—echoed the British-era power structure that divided the region, where the King administered the valley and the Political Agent controlled the hills. It’s the same divide and rule policy, Aheiba Angom said.
After dividing people of the same origin, who were suffering together without basic human rights, into General, Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and Other Backward Classes (OBC), some people began making demands they believed would be beneficial.
On the other hand, the long-term, unmanned nature of the border has led to a major influx of immigrants, raising the question of whether immigration has gotten out of hand.
This situation has fuelled demands by some local groups for implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and erecting border fencing, demands which are strongly opposed by other factions.
These conflicting positions among the ethnic groups pose a significant challenge to Kangleipak’s peaceful and harmonious coexistence, as well as its territorial integrity. The geopolitical context is what makes the situation in Kangleipak particularly critical.
Unless the present generations implement the right policies to tie up loose ends, a fragmented Kangleipak would be left for posterity, read the statement.
It said that the idea of Kangleipak means hills and valley are inseparable. It’s not just the land but also the indigenous people of both hills and valley included.
The idea of Kangleipak essentially entails the united history of the people living together, and their geography and politics. This is not a false and fabricated claim but a universally accepted document, the outfit asserted.
On its foundation day, PREPAK also extended warm revolutionary greetings to all fellow indigenous people, who have shared peaceful coexistence for ages yet are forced to endure colonial brutality; leaders and comrades of revolutionary organizations and all friendly revolutionary organizations of the WESEA region, and the oppressed people throughout the world.
The party has also offered revolutionary salute to all comrades who are languishing in prisons, and senior leaders who took key roles in the struggle for freedom and paved its way but now retired from the party due to physical condition or unavoidable circumstances.