AMWJU boycotts the State CPI unit with immediate effect
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 30, 2012:
The All Manipur Working Journalists' Union has decided to boycott the State CPI unit with immediate effect following the attack on a group of media persons who had gone to cover the CPI sponsored Thoubal bandh today.
The JAC which supported the bandh will also be boycotted.
This decision was taken during a joint meeting of AMWJU and Editors held this evening.
The media team went to Thoubal to cover the Thoubal district bandh called by CPI Thoubal District Council against the killing of a woman in police firing.
However, the bandh supporters attacked the media team using catapults without any warning.
The bandh supporters also removed spectacles of a journalists and smashed it on the ground, breaking it.
Not only that, the bandh supporters behaved and spoke in a manner quite insulting to the media fraternity, conveyed AMWJU.
The meeting held this evening decided to boycott CPI Manipur State Council, the particular JAC and also not to cover today's general strike in Thoubal district.
The same decision would stand until an understanding is brought at the level of AMWJU, added the release.