No newspaper hit the stands in Imphal on Monday as the All-Manipur Working Journalists’ Union and the Editors’ Forum, Manipur, are on strike in protest against the threat by a militant group to kill editors and reporters. The banned outfit has been demanding that press releases by a rival group, which it dubbed “imposters,†be not carried.
A decision, taken at a meeting held at the Press Club in the state capital on Saturday, that editors were at liberty to publish all press statements was not acceptable to the outfit.
Thus, for the umpteenth time, newspapers in Manipur are on strike as some underground organisations have been imposing impossible conditions. A meeting held on Monday by the union and the forum reaffirmed the decision not to yield to militant pressures.
