"Peace" At What Cost?
For Whom Does The "National Solidarity Forum," and the "Evangelical Fellowship of India" (EFI) Speak?
"Christian groups, alarmed by church attacks in Manipur, urge Centre to start talks." "With churches being vandalised, burnt and desecrated in clashes largely between Kuki-Zomi tribals and the Meitei community in Manipur, Christian leaders say government must ensure peace, security and freedom of religion." May 05, 2023 10:47 pm
In the wake of Biren Singh's Meitei May 2023 Anti-Christian Anti-Kuki Pogroms, the duo of "Archbishop of Bangalore" Peter Machado, as pointsman for the "National Solidarity Forum," and Vijayesh Lal, General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, who had petitioned the Supreme Court of India against the Climate of Impunity assured and guaranteed by the Hindu Supremacist and Majoritarian Narendra Modi Regime to his RSS Sangh Parivar, BJP, Bajrang Dal, Cow Vigilantes, etc., for State Sponsored Terrorism against Christians, has abjectly and supinely appealed to the same Narendra Modi Hindu Supremacist and Majoritarian Regime to "facilitate peace talks" between the Meiteis and the Kukis, etc.
What are the implications of this "appeal"?
Biren Singh has artificed and fabricated a Climate of Lies, of Hysteria, and of Self-Delusions for his Meiteis, that claims that they have a right to the lands of the Nagas and of the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos of "Greater Manipur," that most of the Nagas and the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos are "illegal immigrants from Burma."
"Manipur tribal groups slam CM Biren's remarks on land. Nongthombam Biren Singh had allegedly said 'land belongs to Mother Nature and not to any particular community.'" June 13, 2022 03:12 pm
Meiteis are "Protesting" all over the world, pretending that the Meiteis are the victims, pretending that the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos are "illegal immigrants from Burma" and demanding the opening of the Kuki-Zomi-Mizo homelands of "Southern Manipur Highlands" to Meitei Colonization.
The Meiteis also know and are fully aware that these are all lies, blatant lies, but they also know that these lies, that is Biren Singh's Mythology, are convenient for them, the Meiteis, that these lies, this Mythology, has been artificed and fabricated by Biren Singh precisely for their convenience, to enable them to steal and to settle and colonize these lands of the Nagas and of the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos of "Greater Manipur."
It is for this reason that the Meiteis have, at the signal of Biren Singh, attacked the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos during their "Tribal Solidarity March" in "Churachandpur," attacked and vandalized the Anglo-Kuki War Memorial in order to provoke the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos to violence, in order to provide themselves with fig-leaves pretendedly justifying "retaliatory" Pogroms on the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos in the Imphal Valley, their homes, businesses, properties, churches, etc.
Given these facts, we must ask:
1. What will be the purpose of "Peace talks" except to equate the Kuki-Zomi-Mizo victims with Biren Singh's State Sponsored Meitei terrorist Perpetrators? Except to attempt to browbeat and "shame" the victims, and to justify, to "legitimize" Biren Singh and his State Sponsored Meitei terrorists' land-grabs of the Kuki-Zomi-Mizo homelands, and to render it more difficult for the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos to resist the full force of the Biren Singh Meitei Hindu Supremacist and Majoritarian "Manipur Government," and of the Hindu Supremacist and Majoritarian Narendra Modi Regime determined on stealing the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos' homelands?
2. Who authorized, when and how, the "National Solidarity Forum," and the "EFI" to speak on behalf of the Kuki-Zomi-Mizos, to make commitments on their behalf?
But let me put this more bluntly: For Whom Does The Yellow Church Speak?
"And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace." Jeremias vi, 14. Jeremias viii, 11.
(Don't get me started on Ezechiel!)
"It is in truth that we are fighting, not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." - Declaration of Arbroath.
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry.
"Take courage, and be strong. Take courage therefore, and be very valiant." Josue i, 6-7.
"The cowardly fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." Apocalypse xxi, 8.
"Be watchful, stand strong in the faith, be manly, and be strengthened." 1 Corinthians xvi, 13.
"If God be for us, who is against us?" Romans viii, 31.
"Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?" Psalm 93, 16.
"Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their defender is strong; He will take up their case against you." Proverbs xxiii, 10-11.
"All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. A time to love, and a time to hate. A time of war, and a time of peace." Ecclesiastes III, 1-8.
"The fault is not so great when a man steals to fill his hunger. But if he be found stealing, he shall restore seven times, and shall give up all the substance of his house." Proverbs vi, 30-31.
"If you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name." 1 Peter iv, 16.
"And He said to all: If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; for he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall save it. For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his soul, and is cast away himself?" Luke ix, 23-25.
"You adulterers, do you not know that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God." James iv, 4.
"Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
THE NAGAS ARE LARGELY PERSUADED that this is a quarrel only between the Meiteis and the Kukis. I assure them that it is not so. Biren Singh is playing the old Kautilyan Divide And Rule stratagem, taking on, first of all, the weaker Kukis. They breakfast on Kukis, they will dine on the Nagas. I remind the Nagas of Benjamin Franklin's warning: "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Lucio Mascarenhas
