[Assam] Joint Statement

[ulfa_ 1979April7]

BOYCOTT  INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS  AND
  OBSERVE GENERAL STRIKE ON 15 AUGUST 2007
   
   
   
  JOINT STATEMENT OF   
  1.            Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
  2.            Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF)
  3.            Tripura Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF)
  4.            United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
   
   
  10 August 2007
   
   
  The above-mentioned Revolutionary Parties/Organizations call upon the peoples of our Region to BOYCOTT and prevent the celebration, in any manner, of India’s Independence Day in our Region on 15 August 2007 as a mark of solidarity against Indian colonial occupation and repression. On this day, a GENERAL STRIKE shall be observed throughout the Region from 01:00 AM to 05:30 PM. However, in view of the devastating floods in Assam and Kamotapur, duration of the General Strike there will be shortened as from 06:00 AM to 12:00 PM.  
   
            Yet another year has recorded the unrelenting national liberation struggles in the Region gaining the upper hand on the one hand and the failure of one-sided ‘peace talks’ as a means for conflict resolution on the other. This has convincingly established the fact that the national liberation struggles should be consolidated, strengthened and intensified while the fragmentation of the Region on exclusive ethnic lines should consciously give way to a new process of inclusive unity based on interdependent coexistence as determined by the Region’s reality.
   
  Last year, we highlighted the historical responsibility of the national liberation struggles in the Region to consolidate the unity of their respective peoples sincerely respecting the emotional aspects of genuine ethnic aspirations. At the same time, ethnic groups need to develop an inclusive outlook in the search for unity in interdependence and coexistence. This is a paramount necessity demanded by the reality of our Region which is home to more than hundreds of ethnic groups. 
   
            So far, India’s all out effort has failed, and is doomed to fail, to suppress our national struggles because they have no justification whatsoever. Ours is a just war to liberate the entire peoples of the Region from India’s colonial occupation while India’s war against us is an unjust war to prolong their colonial rule. History has always been on the side of just wars in defeating unjust wars. Ours will be no exception. Time and unrelenting struggles will bear testimony to our victory.
            
  Keeping faith in the collective strength of our Region, we appeal to all our peoples to once again display their solidarity against India, the common enemy, by making the Boycott and General Strike a complete success.   
   
            Also in view of the devastating floods in Assam and Kamotapur, we make a special appeal to the entire peoples of the Region to stand by the flood affected fraternal peoples.   
   
   
   
   
   “UNITE, TO FIGHT TOGETHER!”
  “VICTORY TO OUR STRUGGLES!”
   
   
   

       
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