Zoya Phan, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK, will speak to the Conservative Party Conference tomorrow (Tuesday 2nd October, 11.15-12.30, during the Globalisation and Poverty).
“I am pleased to be given this opportunity to call for strong international action against the regime in Burma,” said Zoya Phan. “The world promised there would be consequences if the regime used violence against peaceful protestors. They ignored those calls, and there must now be strong sanctions against the regime. We have had enough talk, people are dying. It is time for action.”
Zoya Phan is a political exile from the Karen ethnic group, which has been subject to a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the regime. She was 14 years old when soldiers attacked her village and she was forced to flee to refugee camps in Thailand.
Zoya received a standing ovation when she spoke at the Conservative Party conference last year.
Zoya will also be speaking at a fringe meeting on Burma at 8am on Wednesday 3rd October, Churchill Room, Imperial Hotel. Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, and Benedict Rogers, Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, will also be on the panel.