Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK today called on Barclays to disclose in full all financial payments made involving Burma. Barclays Bank has agreed to pay a $298m (£190m) fine for breaking US sanctions against several dictatorships. The bank had been charged with breaking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act between …
The Burma Campaign UK today published a new briefing which calls on the United Nations General Assembly to establish a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. EU Member states are currently drafting the twentieth annual resolution on Burma, which is expected to be adopted later this year. Analysis in …
Canadian Friends of Burma and Burma Campaign UK have joined forces to call on the Canadian government to support a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. For many years the United Nations has been documenting horrific human rights abuses which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. …
On the eve of the first anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi being sentenced to 18 months under house arrest, the Burma Campaign UK called on the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to stop dithering and start acting to bring change to Burma. On 11th August 2009 Aung San Suu Kyi was given a …
1,600 Call On Prime Minister David Cameron to Take the Lead on Burma Staff and volunteers at Burma Campaign UK today deliver 1,657 letters to 10 Downing Street, residence of British Prime Minister David Cameron. The letters, from supporters of Burma Campaign UK, ask the Prime Minister to take the lead in pushing for strong …
Media Release From European Karen Network As the Burmese Army steps up attacks against ethnic Karen civilians in Eastern Burma, the European Karen Network, which represents Karen communities in Europe, today called on European governments to support a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the dictatorship. On 23rd …
More than 1,000 supporters of Burma Campaign UK have written letters to Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner responsible for European Union aid, calling on the Commission to review its policy of refusing to fund cross-border aid to Burma. Restrictions on humanitarian aid by the dictatorship in Burma mean that there are parts of the country …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a statement by the G8, whose leaders have just held their annual summit, which calls on Burma’s dictatorship to enter into ‘substantive dialogue’ with Burma’s democracy movement, including ethnic groups. By calling for ‘substantive dialogue’ the G8 is recognising that elections due later this year will not solve the problems …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a new report – Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas – published by the Irish Centre for Human Rights. The report was supervised by Prof Schabas, an expert on international human rights law, who served as one of the seven commissioners on the Sierra …
Burma Campaign UK today warmly welcomed British Prime Minister David Cameron’s letter of support for Aung San Suu Kyi on her 65th birthday, and asked him to take the lead in supporting UN led efforts to secure negotiations between the dictatorship and Burma’s democracy movement. “The letter from the Prime Minister demonstrates Britain’s continuing commitment …
Ninety British MPs so far have signed a Motion in the British Parliament calling on the British government to support a UN led effort to secure dialogue in Burma. The Motion, timed for Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday, rejects elections due in Burma later this year, condemns the new constitution, and calls on the …
Demonstrations, concerts, performances, conferences, seminars, protests and numerous other events are taking place in more than 22 cities around the world to mark the celebration of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday on Saturday June 19, 2010. Aung Sun Suu Kyi, icon of democracy, freedom and non-violence, is still being detained by the military dictatorship …
A video birthday message to Aung San Suu Kyi from National League for Democracy leader U Win Tin has been smuggled out of Burma. In the message U Win Tin, who spent 19 years in jail as a political prisoner, describes how he misses Aung San Suu Kyi, and how he hopes she will soon …
Five Burmese exiled dissidents staged a defiant protest at the country’s London embassy earlier this morning to mark the 65th birthday of Burma’s iconic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League of Democracy to victory in the last elections in Burma back in 1990 with just under 60 per …
Media Release from Freedom Now UN Urges Her Immediate And Unconditional Release Washington, D.C. – Today, Freedom Now released Opinion No. 12/2010 from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The judgment from this international tribunal unequivocally reestablishes that the ongoing detention of Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal and …
Media Release from Kachin National Organization – UK Today, the Kachin Community in UK are holding a protest against forced relocation of villagers due to the Myitsone Irrawaddy dam project, and against the arrest of Kachin youth the regime accuses of resisting the dams. Since 28th May, 63 households from Mazup Mare village near the …
The Burma Campaign UK today condemned as ‘pathetic’ and ‘irresponsible’ a joint statement on Burma issued by the EU and ASEAN on 26th May. The statement goes so far in misrepresenting reality that it effectively amounts to a defence of the dictatorship. The statement bizarrely calls on the dictatorship to ‘continue to engage in meaningful …
Media Release from Simon and Schuster ‘Without a scrap of self-pity and with a fair dollop of humour, 28-year-old Phan describes a life mostly spent running for cover’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Enormously readable- a little piece of your heart will be left in Burma’ JO BRAND Published by Pocket 27th May 2010, Priced £7.99 ‘My …
Free Elections ‘Impossible’ The European Parliament today unanimously passed a strong resolution on Burma, stating that election laws make free elections ‘impossible’ and the new constitution will ‘maintain a dictatorship in a civilian guise’. The European Parliament also called EU member states to support the recommendation by the UN Special Rapporteur on Burma for a …
Activists worldwide are bombarding Burmese embassies with emails demanding Burma’s dictatorship allow medical access for Ko Mya Aye, a leading democracy activist in Burma. Ko Mya Aye, currently serving a 65 year jail term for his role in organising the democracy uprising in 2007, is being denied medical treatment for a serious heart condition. In …
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has failed to take any serious action to prevent Burma’s largest political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), becoming a banned organisation. Under new election laws introduced by Burma’s dictatorship the NLD will officially cease to exist from midnight tonight. The NLD was required to register as a political …
The Burma Campaign UK has approached the main political parties in the UK asking them for their policies on Burma. Commenting on the responses, Nang Seng, Parliamentary Officer at Burma Campaign UK said: “The policies of all the main political parties in the UK demonstrate cross-party support for targeted economic sanctions, a global arms embargo, …
Ko Mya Aye, one of the leaders of 88 Generation Students Group, which led protests in 1988 and again in 2007, is being denied access to proper medical treatment he urgently needs for a heart condition. On 9th of April he was moved from Loikaw Prison in Karenni State to Taungyi Prison in Shan State. …
Today is the final deadline for armed ethnic groups which have signed ceasefire agreements with the dictatorship in Burma to agree to become border guard forces or militias under the control of the Burmese Army. The demand is part of the generals’ agenda to destroy all opposition ahead of elections designed to maintain their rule …