Crimes Against Humanity

Thousands Fleeing Burmese Army in Karen State – UK Government Must Act

June 5, 2009

The Burma Campaign UK today called on the British government to take urgent action as more than 2,000 ethnic Karen civilians flee from the Burmese Army and their allies. Ler Per Her, a camp for internally displaced people just inside Burma in Karen State, is being evacuated today as around a thousand soldiers from the …

World’s Leading Jurists Call for Investigation into Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes

May 21, 2009

Press Release from The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program New report from Harvard Law School finds that UN documents on Burma provide grounds for investigation into international crimes; calls for more concerted UN action on Burma Five of the world’s leading international jurists have commissioned a report from the …