Burma Campaign UK
To commemorate Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday on 19 June (her 14th in detention), local and Burmese citizens will be holding protests and events in over 20 cities across the world, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the 2,156 political prisoners currently held in Burma/Myanmar. The protesters will also be …
More than 2,000 delegates at the UNISON national conference in Brighton today donned masks of Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in protest at her continued detention by the Burmese military. It was a show of solidarity and support for the National League for Democracy leader on the eve of her 64th birthday. During …
The Burma Campaign UK is calling on the United Nations Security Council to discuss the situation in Eastern Burma, including two new cases of teenage women, one eight months pregnant, being raped and murdered by the Burmese Army, when it debates the protection of civilians in armed conflict on 26th June this month. According to …
Around 15 schoolchildren and young men have been beaten, and some hospitalised, after Burmese Army soldiers went on a rampage through Mayan village in Kachin State, Burma. According to Burma Campaign UK sources, the attacks happened after youths in the village prevented soldiers from gang-raping a 17 year old girl. On the morning of 31st …
Kim Dae-jung: “Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued detention shames Asia.” Anwar Ibrahim: “ASEAN cannot continue its policy of non-intervention. It’s time to work together for regional stability and prosperity.” Shirin Ebadi: “Aung San Suu Kyi is an inspiration to us all. We want to let her know that she is not alone during her trial …
Media Release from The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) Political Prisoners Punished in Insein Prison [Mae Sot, Thailand] Five political prisoners in Rangoon’s Insein prison have been held in punishment cells [military dog cells] and banned from receiving family visits since 11 May 2009, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) has learned. The …
The Burma Campaign UK today warmly welcomed a statement by the Presidency of the European Union condemning a Burmese Army offensive against civilians in Karen State, Burma. It is the first time the European Union has made a statement specifically about the crisis in Eastern Burma. The dictatorship and its allies began a new offensive …
In late May and early June the Burmese Army and its allies, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, began moving troops into part of Pa’an District of Karen State, on the Thai-Burma border. Soldiers have recruited up to 200 people as slave labour to carry military equipment, and more than 4,000 people have been forced to …
The Burma Campaign UK today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to make securing the release of all Burma’s political prisoners an urgent priority, before democracy leaders die in Burma’s jails. Many of the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group, which started the protests that led to the democracy uprising in September 2007, are being …
The British government and United Nations have remained silent about a new military offensive in Karen State, Burma, which has forced around 4,000 people to flee their homes. There are now almost 1,500 soldiers from the Burmese Army and its allies, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), involved in the new offensive in the Pa’an …
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 …
Celebrities from around the world have been “tweeting” about a new campaign launched on Wednesday 27 May allowing visitors to leave a message of support for Burma’s imprisoned democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi in the run up to her 64th birthday. Since then, Demi Moore, Yoko Ono, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Brown, and Eddie Izzard …
The Burma Campaign UK today called for Burma’s military dictatorship to face serious consequences if Aung San Suu Kyi is not released at the end of the current trial. “We cannot have another groundhog day for Aung San Suu Kyi, where once again she is detained, once again the international community expresses outrage, and once …
A new website, 64forSuu.org, calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s political prisoners, launches today with the backing of major celebrities and a coalition of NGOs and trade unions. The website will become the global hub of the international campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi. The …
Accept nothing less than the release of Burma’s political prisoners: Over 600,000 global citizens urge Ban Ki-moon A global campaign for the release of Burma’s political prisoners has secured over 600,000 petition signatures in just ten weeks, according to campaign organisers. Signatures have come from over 150 countries. “This is the largest global coordinated action …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the press statement on Burma issued by the United Nations Security Council on 22nd May, but called for concrete action if the dictatorship continues to defy the Council and keep Aung San Suu Kyi detained. The Security Council has issued a press statement calling on the dictatorship to enter …
As the Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now! signature campaign draws to a close, a motion in the British Parliament praises the campaign, and backs its demands that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon make the release of Burma’s political prisoners his top priority. In just five days more than 77 MPs have added their names to …
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 …
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in May 2009 and put on trial, accused of breaking the terms of her house arrest after an American man, John Yettaw, swam to her house and refused to leave. On 11th August 2009, after a sham trial, Aung San Suu Kyi was given a further 18 months under …
Media Release from European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma 167 parliamentarians from 16 European countries, members of the European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma (EPCB), today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to personally secure the release of the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on trial after being accused of breaching the …
Julie Morgan the MP for Cardiff North is calling for renewed support for the detained elected leader of Burma Aung San Suu Kyi who has spent thirteen of the last nineteen years either in jail or under house arrest and who has recently been arrested and is undergoing a fresh trial under charges made against …
Dear Daw Suu The Burmese regime continues to resist the righteous clamour from your people and from the international community for your release. As you and the Burmese people are denied your democratic rights and freedoms the only way for me to communicate with you is through this open letter. I wanted to publish it …
Police had to close the street of the Burmese Embassy in London as more than 200 people joined the protest demanding the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi. Representatives of Burmese community organisations and human rights groups gave speeches, including from National League for Democracy – Liberated Area, Women of Burma UK, Burma Muslin …
As European Union Foreign Ministers meet in Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has been reported as stating: “It’s not the moment to lower the sanctions, it’s the moment to increase them.” The European Union, along with governments, human rights organisations, politicians and celebrities have expressed outrage at the arrest and trial of Burma’s …