By Donn Morgan Kipgen
Revolutionary movement started from the audacious mind of one person, whose honour, mental courage, integrity and responsibility are unquestionable and socio-politically sound. Armed revolutionaries and liberators seldom changed their specific objectives nor compromised their extreme imposition of their patriotic ideologies. A real revolutionary either wins or lose but never lost their way in the mid-stream for the want of courage and principles. And a true revolutionary or liberator never sold himself out.
At present, that’s exactly what both the State and Central armed forces have been doing by doling out blank papers and pens tied with heavy bank notes. The Union armed forces have already netted just about all hill-based tribal UG outfits, with carrot and stick policy magnificently enforced. Well, any course of action to bring peace with money power and Tomahawk Diplomacy is most welcomed. Even a temporary peace is better than a few weeks of violence.
However, ceasefire agreement and the vexed Suspension of Operation (SOP) have cost more lives, limbs and money amongst hostile groups due to factional clashes. Things have gone worse and worser still it will go if the mandatory ground rules are strictly enforced. It is worth knowing that the assassinations of Pu Mangboi Kipgen, KNF’s Defence Minister, Pu Vipin Haokip, KNA’s supremo and Pu Letkholun Khongsai, KLA’s founding leader, and other leaders of the Naga UG outfits, etc took place during the SOP/ceasefire period, along with large number of UG cadres. Most of the UG militants were killed in factional clashes and lots of others by the armed forces personnel in most controversial circumstances. When there is no common enemy, all highly hard-core armed extremists, with systematic infusion of appeasement money and selective patronism in psycho-warfare, an internal, factional, ethnic and inter-ethnic clashes for domination, taxation, successions, the UG outfits ready to sign another SOP with State Govt for a tricky boat-ride in an uncharted and hostile deep sea, one could only prepare for or expect another volatile war of area domination even in urban areas. Sadly, the real victims would only be the general public in an apparent dirty political interferences.
The politico-military concept of the intriguing SOP is rather hard to comprehend, like the Duckwood-Lewis’s rules of one-day cricket match. However the D-L has specific practical ground-rules and is applicable impartially in all situations under any existing condition of a truncated match. Unfortunately, there are no positive conditions, specific ideological ground conditions nor any official promises to discuss the demand for independent autonomous homeland for the CHIKIMS UG outfits that of the NSCN(IM)’s ‘Greater Nagalim’, in ongoing SOP with the Central Govt. Only large sums of money are remunerated on regular time period basis to the CHIKIMS UG outfits but without ceasefire status when it comes to an encounter in full uniforms, armed activities, possession firearms in any unauthorised movements, the Army/AR personnel swiftly pressed their hair-triggers without any hesitation. The killing of a church priest in CCpur, the elimination of the friendly PRO of the KLA for possession of a pistol in a parley meet, the gunning down of four unwary KNF cadres at Gelnel village, the relentless operations against the KRA etc by the ‘AR Raiders’ clearly show that the SOP’s ceasefire ground rules are not honoured both sides. May be, the conditionless SOP is quite flexible since the so-called SOO does not contain the most important pre-fix ‘Military’ which is conspicuous by its absence. To maintain diplomatical relationship without needless eliminations of ‘friendly foes’, it has to be practically called ‘Suspension of Military Operations’ so as to enforce respectable ceasefire. Looking back the bloody SOP which has not been honoured by all units of the Union paramilitary forces and of course, by the State Govt, the CHIKIMS UG outfits have long since been trapped ‘LBW’ with a stinging reverse swings and ‘Doosra’ and the wrong-ones, all unceremoniously been sent back to the huts even before they settle down in a deceptive pitch.
At present, such kind of situation is very much visible, another wily double-gamesmanship is in the offing with the State Govt trying to pen down the hard done CHIKIM UG outfits, already soften up by Central armed forces in a psycho-warfare truce, all of them looking everywhere but going nowhere. Once a conditionless call for truce is made official by Manipur’s State Govt, the Kuki insurgency movement would most probably go back to square one and more bloody troubles lurking around the corner. It also means that the CHIKIMS populations have to defend themselves against any external aggression, should there be any. They will still pay taxes but without protection in a condition which the CHIKIM UG outfits themselves created for their own interests - there is no need to emphasise what this means. The ordinary Kukis, specially innocent villagers, who bore the brunt of the NSCN(IM) expansionist onslaughts in the first devastating 5 years of the 1990s and the subsequent uncompromising CIOPs since then have nothing to gain and just about everything to lose. Who comes for the welfare and safety of the CHIKIMS? No, sirs, none at all. It’s only just the ethnic group’s name the UG outfits wanted to legitimise their divisive existence. The lofty ideological aims and objectives have already been put inside a cold-storage by the Central authorities and now an indefinite storage in deep freeze refrigerator is planned by the State Govt and the divided CHIKIMS UG militants which could and surely would totally undermine or permanently froze the bloody Kuki insurgency movement for good or for worse. What sense of outrage would be in the minds of the cheated Kuki rebel chiefs and the uncorrupted warriors of the Great Kuki Rebellion of the 1917-1919 who successfully withstood the military juggernauts of the mighty British Empire and the priceless pride of which magnificent victories still proudly sung by the Kuki Nation till this day?
These Kuki warriors and their leaders were treacherously imprisoned by the British Empire through a false offer of amnesty after one regular army division and two brigades of the British military police, and the AR about 7000 well-armed troops against 2000 lightly armed Kuki militiamen, failed to put the costliest military campaign in the British Indian history since the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny which lasted about 2 years of relentless fightings.
What is happening to the confused Kuki militants and the more confused patriotic Kukis is a dishonour and insulting to the highly resilient and audacious Kuki commander-in-Chiefs and bravehearts who outrageously took the big horns of all-conquering Brittainas’ 2 Divisions and a brigade of Burma military armed police who were called in to reinforce a trapped brigade consisting of the Gorkha, AR and Madras Regts reeling with regular set backs in deadly guerrilla warfares.
Whereas the undefeated and intelligent Kuki militiamen stood their non-negotiable principles and objectives frearlessly against the might of Brittiania so honourably in WWI’s part of British military campaigns nearly 90 years ago, the present day Kuki warriors failed to negotiate an onslaught of ceaseless bundles of banknotes, false promises and the diktats of both Union and State armed forces psycho-political war fares in just a year or so time period. When one is known to be fighting for the cause of his nation, the cost of peace in kind or in cash on the altar of freedom should never ever be negotiated until and unless the main objective is on offer at the same altar of victory.
Source: The Sangai Express
Revolutionary movement started from the audacious mind of one person, whose honour, mental courage, integrity and responsibility are unquestionable and socio-politically sound. Armed revolutionaries and liberators seldom changed their specific objectives nor compromised their extreme imposition of their patriotic ideologies. A real revolutionary either wins or lose but never lost their way in the mid-stream for the want of courage and principles. And a true revolutionary or liberator never sold himself out.
At present, that’s exactly what both the State and Central armed forces have been doing by doling out blank papers and pens tied with heavy bank notes. The Union armed forces have already netted just about all hill-based tribal UG outfits, with carrot and stick policy magnificently enforced. Well, any course of action to bring peace with money power and Tomahawk Diplomacy is most welcomed. Even a temporary peace is better than a few weeks of violence.
However, ceasefire agreement and the vexed Suspension of Operation (SOP) have cost more lives, limbs and money amongst hostile groups due to factional clashes. Things have gone worse and worser still it will go if the mandatory ground rules are strictly enforced. It is worth knowing that the assassinations of Pu Mangboi Kipgen, KNF’s Defence Minister, Pu Vipin Haokip, KNA’s supremo and Pu Letkholun Khongsai, KLA’s founding leader, and other leaders of the Naga UG outfits, etc took place during the SOP/ceasefire period, along with large number of UG cadres. Most of the UG militants were killed in factional clashes and lots of others by the armed forces personnel in most controversial circumstances. When there is no common enemy, all highly hard-core armed extremists, with systematic infusion of appeasement money and selective patronism in psycho-warfare, an internal, factional, ethnic and inter-ethnic clashes for domination, taxation, successions, the UG outfits ready to sign another SOP with State Govt for a tricky boat-ride in an uncharted and hostile deep sea, one could only prepare for or expect another volatile war of area domination even in urban areas. Sadly, the real victims would only be the general public in an apparent dirty political interferences.
The politico-military concept of the intriguing SOP is rather hard to comprehend, like the Duckwood-Lewis’s rules of one-day cricket match. However the D-L has specific practical ground-rules and is applicable impartially in all situations under any existing condition of a truncated match. Unfortunately, there are no positive conditions, specific ideological ground conditions nor any official promises to discuss the demand for independent autonomous homeland for the CHIKIMS UG outfits that of the NSCN(IM)’s ‘Greater Nagalim’, in ongoing SOP with the Central Govt. Only large sums of money are remunerated on regular time period basis to the CHIKIMS UG outfits but without ceasefire status when it comes to an encounter in full uniforms, armed activities, possession firearms in any unauthorised movements, the Army/AR personnel swiftly pressed their hair-triggers without any hesitation. The killing of a church priest in CCpur, the elimination of the friendly PRO of the KLA for possession of a pistol in a parley meet, the gunning down of four unwary KNF cadres at Gelnel village, the relentless operations against the KRA etc by the ‘AR Raiders’ clearly show that the SOP’s ceasefire ground rules are not honoured both sides. May be, the conditionless SOP is quite flexible since the so-called SOO does not contain the most important pre-fix ‘Military’ which is conspicuous by its absence. To maintain diplomatical relationship without needless eliminations of ‘friendly foes’, it has to be practically called ‘Suspension of Military Operations’ so as to enforce respectable ceasefire. Looking back the bloody SOP which has not been honoured by all units of the Union paramilitary forces and of course, by the State Govt, the CHIKIMS UG outfits have long since been trapped ‘LBW’ with a stinging reverse swings and ‘Doosra’ and the wrong-ones, all unceremoniously been sent back to the huts even before they settle down in a deceptive pitch.
At present, such kind of situation is very much visible, another wily double-gamesmanship is in the offing with the State Govt trying to pen down the hard done CHIKIM UG outfits, already soften up by Central armed forces in a psycho-warfare truce, all of them looking everywhere but going nowhere. Once a conditionless call for truce is made official by Manipur’s State Govt, the Kuki insurgency movement would most probably go back to square one and more bloody troubles lurking around the corner. It also means that the CHIKIMS populations have to defend themselves against any external aggression, should there be any. They will still pay taxes but without protection in a condition which the CHIKIM UG outfits themselves created for their own interests - there is no need to emphasise what this means. The ordinary Kukis, specially innocent villagers, who bore the brunt of the NSCN(IM) expansionist onslaughts in the first devastating 5 years of the 1990s and the subsequent uncompromising CIOPs since then have nothing to gain and just about everything to lose. Who comes for the welfare and safety of the CHIKIMS? No, sirs, none at all. It’s only just the ethnic group’s name the UG outfits wanted to legitimise their divisive existence. The lofty ideological aims and objectives have already been put inside a cold-storage by the Central authorities and now an indefinite storage in deep freeze refrigerator is planned by the State Govt and the divided CHIKIMS UG militants which could and surely would totally undermine or permanently froze the bloody Kuki insurgency movement for good or for worse. What sense of outrage would be in the minds of the cheated Kuki rebel chiefs and the uncorrupted warriors of the Great Kuki Rebellion of the 1917-1919 who successfully withstood the military juggernauts of the mighty British Empire and the priceless pride of which magnificent victories still proudly sung by the Kuki Nation till this day?
These Kuki warriors and their leaders were treacherously imprisoned by the British Empire through a false offer of amnesty after one regular army division and two brigades of the British military police, and the AR about 7000 well-armed troops against 2000 lightly armed Kuki militiamen, failed to put the costliest military campaign in the British Indian history since the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny which lasted about 2 years of relentless fightings.
What is happening to the confused Kuki militants and the more confused patriotic Kukis is a dishonour and insulting to the highly resilient and audacious Kuki commander-in-Chiefs and bravehearts who outrageously took the big horns of all-conquering Brittainas’ 2 Divisions and a brigade of Burma military armed police who were called in to reinforce a trapped brigade consisting of the Gorkha, AR and Madras Regts reeling with regular set backs in deadly guerrilla warfares.
Whereas the undefeated and intelligent Kuki militiamen stood their non-negotiable principles and objectives frearlessly against the might of Brittiania so honourably in WWI’s part of British military campaigns nearly 90 years ago, the present day Kuki warriors failed to negotiate an onslaught of ceaseless bundles of banknotes, false promises and the diktats of both Union and State armed forces psycho-political war fares in just a year or so time period. When one is known to be fighting for the cause of his nation, the cost of peace in kind or in cash on the altar of freedom should never ever be negotiated until and unless the main objective is on offer at the same altar of victory.
Source: The Sangai Express
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