INDIA, Dec. 4 -- A coalition of five proscribed underground outfits in Manipur, G-5, on Wednesday issued directives to all individuals and organisations that participated in the recently concluded Sangai Festival 2025, asking them to issue a public apology before December 10, 2025.

According to a joint statement issued by the five outfits, the festival amounted to a betrayal of the suffering of internally displaced persons sheltering in different relief camps due to the ethnic violence that erupted in May 2023.

The statement, jointly signed by the leaders of the outlawed Kangleipak Communist Party, Kanglei Yawol Kanba Lup, People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) (Progressive), and the United National Liberation Front (Koiren...