Burma Campaign UK
NEW BURMA ‘DIRTY LIST’ PUBLISHED AUGUST 20TH 2003 ON AUGUST 2OTH 2003 THE BURMA CAMPAIGN UK WILL BE PUBLISHING AN UPDATED VERSION OF ITS ‘DIRTY LIST’ OF COMPANIES HELPING TO FINANCE BURMA’S MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. “The Dirty List exposes companies who are directly or indirectly helping to finance one of the most brutal regimes in the …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed news that luxury travel firm Abercrombie & Kent is to stop operating tours to Burma at the end of this year. The company has been on a ‘dirty list’ of companies in Burma published by the Burma Campaign UK. “This is excellent news,” said Anna Roberts, Campaigns Officer at …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed news that the Royal Society for Asian Affairs is cancelling a planned tourist trip to Burma. The Burma Campaign UK has been lobbying for the Society to call off the trip. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently under arrest in an unknown location, has called for …
The Burma Campaign UK today accused Germany of protecting Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. European Union foreign ministers meeting today were expected to discuss what action they would take against the dictatorship in Burma. However, Germany’s refusal to consider economic sanctions meant that Burma had to be dropped from the agenda. “Than Shwe, the dictator of …
The Burma Campaign UK today described Mondays meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers as crucial in deciding whether the EU will ever be able to agree tough action on Burma. At last month’s meeting Foreign Ministers failed to agree tough action in response to the May 30th arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and crackdown …
The British government has announced it will be writing to all travel organisations with links to Burma asking them to end their involvement in tourism to the country. Foreign Office minister Mike O’Brien made the announcement in a debate on Burma in the House of Commons just before calling on British American Tobacco to close …