Burma Campaign UK
Media Release from International Campaign for the Rohingya and Burma Campaign UK In the wake of the Myanmar military’s February 1st coup d’etat, Burma Campaign UK and International Campaign for the Rohingya today demanded American web services company Cloudflare terminate its services for the Myanmar military. Cloudflare provides website services for the military controlled Ministry …
Download and print this ‘Wanted’ poster of Min Aung Hlaing.
Burma Campaign UK today called on British MPs to back the genocide amendment of the trade bill, which will be voted on by MPs tomorrow, Tuesday 9th February. The lack of any significant response to the genocide of the Rohingya by the military will have increased their sense of impunity and encouraged them to believe …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed news that the European Union has finally suspended its controversial ‘Mypol’ training programme, training and equipping the Myanmar Police Force. The police force took part in the genocide of the Rohingya and has helped implement the new military coup. Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas (NI-CO), a body which comes under the …
Al Jazeera reports on the seizure of power by the Burmese army, who have declared a state of emergency and detained civilian leaders. Al Jazeera interviewed Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK, on the arrest of her father Mya Aye, one of the leaders of the 88 Generation, the pro-democracy group …
Channel 4 News report on the near-total internet blackout in Burma, where the leaders of a military coup are facing a rising tide of protests. The streets of the city of Yangon were filled with angry demonstrators, demanding the release of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi who was detained following the army …