KOHIMA, Jun 21 (NEPS): The Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) said the Indian army had been using the Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B) cadres as a “proxy force” to attack the PLA and other revolutionary organisations in their region. It further alleged that India was using the name of KNA-B for “India’s Unconventional Military Activities: the conduct of sabotage, subversion, and destabilisation through undeclared Indian forces—outside the Western South East Asia (WESEA) Region targeting Myanmar directly.”
In a press statement issued on Friday by Deputy Secretary Publicity, RPF, Roben Khuman, however, informed that the RPF did not have any policy or reason to “attack any foreign insurgents.” Therefore, the PLA, in principle and praxis, never attacked them except to defend themselves. The fraternal insurgent groups must understand that the RPF’s conflict was only with India since India had occupied their country forcibly in 1949, and the organization was resisting it, it added.
The statement also said any publications or posts in mass media about the PLA attacking other “foreign insurgents or ethnic communities” were not only “far from the truth,” but also cheap propaganda initiated by India and its henchmen.”
Stating that cheap propaganda couldn’t tarnish the image of the RPF because everybody knew that the group always had a “bee in its hornet about principle,” the RPF said, “Principle is the backbone of a genuinely revolutionary organization.”
The RPF appealed again to all genuine insurgent organizations of the neighbouring country, saying, “You are not our conflicting parties of WESEA Region.” “In principle, we are revolutionary brothers, and therefore, there is no reason to be at war with each other,” the statement said, further calling upon them to stop attacking the revolutionary organizations of WESEA.
It said the RPF and its army, the PLA, had a desire to maintain amity with any genuine insurgents of the neighbouring foreign country. So that they could prevent themselves from unnecessary losses of lives and resources too. It, however, warned that “For the moment, to protect ourselves from any kind of assault in the future, PLA ought to take up the best form of defensive (measures).”
It also reminded that on the verge of “OP: Golden Bird,” the Indian army misinformed the Myanmar government that the joint force of Chin National Front (CNF) and PLA were going to attack Myanmar military posts in the Chin State of Myanmar. And when Myanmar learned of India’s deception and some other reasons, the Myanmar army pulled out of the operation. They should be aware of India and its politicians’ deception and betrayal, which became their trademarks, the statement added.
It asked how long India would be using CNF and KNA-B as disposable tools for its benefits in the name of supporting their struggle for “democracy against the Myanmar government.” It further asked whether the policy of fighting against revolutionary organizations of the WESEA Region and appointing Assam Rifles soldiers as commanders of KNA-B was the right call.”
The RPF also called upon the Myanmar insurgents, especially the KNA-B, to learn from the history of how India played post-1971 Bangladesh and its betrayal and role of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) against the LTTE in Sri Lanka.