Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed new targeted sanctions on the Burmese military announced by the UK, USA and Canada. The new sanctions announced today are: The Quarter Master General’s Office The Directorate for Defence Industries The Directorate for Defence Procurement The Myanmar War Veterans Organisation The Myanmar War Veterans Organisation acts as a reserve for …
Joint statement calling on the UN to cease all forms of cooperation that lend legitimacy to the Myanmar military junta, signed by 255 CSOs. UN Agencies Must Comply with their Obligations to Uphold Human Rights and Cease Lending Legitimacy to the Myanmar Military Junta We, the undersigned 255 civil society organizations, call on all United …
As Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visits the UK asking for support against the threat of invasion by the Russian dictatorship, Burma Campaign UK today accused him of hypocrisy for continuing to arm and equip the genocidal Burmese military. Dmytro Kuleba claims Ukraine is a bastion of support for human rights and democracy at the …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Facebook that they will finally take down the Facebook Pages of military companies. Burma Campaign UK has been calling on Facebook to take this step for many years, as have many Burmese civil society organisations. The Facebook announcement is available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/an-update-on-myanmar/ “For years Facebook resisted significant …
Coordinated legal actions on behalf of victims and survivors of genocide started today in the UK and US alleging Facebook’s negligence encouraged and facilitated the genocide carried out by the Myanmar regime and its extremist supporters against the Rohingya people. Today lawyers in the UK and US initiated coordinated legal campaigns against Facebook for its …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Argentinian judiciary has taken the historic step to open a court case against the Myanmar military – including Min Aung Hlaing and much of the current junta’s senior leadership – over the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today. On the 26 November 2021 the Second Chamber …
Burma Campaign UK today called on European Union member states to urgently impose a new round of targeted economic sanctions on the Burmese military, and to agree to impose regular new rounds of sanctions from now on. It is now five months since the European Union brought in any new sanctions against the Burmese military. …
Media Release from Arakan Oil Watch A new report launched today by Arakan Oil Watch exposes that international oil and gas companies have expanded their operations in Burma since the coup, providing huge revenues to the regime, despite widespread calls for sanctions and the growing number of attacks against the military’s economic projects. Burma’s regime …
Joint letter from 259 organisations calling on INTERPOL to immediately ban the Myanmar military junta from representing Myanmar as a member of INTERPOL: 22 November 2021 To: Kim Jong Yang, INTERPOL President; Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL General Secretary; the INTERPOL Executive Committee and INTERPOL Member Countries Subject: Call on INTERPOL to ban the illegal junta from …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the UK, US and EU to urgently implement further economic sanctions and take other steps, following the failure of the UN Security Council to agree effective action or even refer to the situation in North-Western Burma in a statement yesterday. The statement is available here. Burma Campaign UK and …
From members of the UK Atrocity Prevention Working Group Members of the UK Atrocity Prevention Working Group released a public letter addressed to Minister for Africa Vicky Ford on the coup in Sudan. The statement calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to act swiftly, comprehensively and with conviction in response to the unjustifiable seizure of power …
We, the undersigned 521 Myanmar, regional and international civil society organizations, call on the UN Security Council to urgently convene a meeting on the escalating attacks in Chin State, and address the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in Myanmar. We call for the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to consolidate …
Jaguar/Land Rover are not a suitable partner for the COP26 climate change conference because their owner, Tata, supplies vehicles to the genocidal Burmese military. The UK Presidency of COP26 has made Jaguar Land Rover an official partner of the conference: https://ukcop26.org/uk-presidency/partnerships-and-support/ Tata, which also owns Tetley Tea, have supplied troop carriers and military staff cars …
We undersigned Rohingya community organisations today joined forces in calling on members of the United Nations Security Council not to repeat the mistakes it made in failing to act on warnings of an impending military offensive against the Rohingya in 2017. The Burmese military has been carrying out an increased number of indiscriminate attacks against …
Media Release from Chin Human Rights Organization CHRO reiterates the need for urgent action by the U.N. Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to address the situation in Chin State, Myanmar. This afternoon, the Tatmadaw began launching incendiary rockets into Thantlang town. Lt. Col. Thaung Hlaing, as the Chief Military Commander has ordered this …
The British Foreign Office is ‘in discussion’ with UN Security Council members regarding the escalating crisis in North-Western Burma, according to a Foreign Office Minister today. Amanda Milling MP, Minister of State for Asia, made the statement in answer to written questions in the British Parliament today. “We are very pleased to see this kind …
Since the military February 1, 2021, coup the junta has been brutally cracking down, arbitrary detaining thousands, relentlessly torturing, and ruthlessly killing civilians against an illegitimate coup attempt. Most of the political prisoners are mentally and physically tortured, and do not even have access to a fair trial. The military junta released some political detainees …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the UN Security Council to urgently convene a meeting on the escalating military attacks and troop build-up in Chin State, Sagaing Region and Magwe, North-Western Burma. As penholder on Burma at the UN Security Council, the main responsibility for convening a meeting falls to the British government. “The situation …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a statement from the British government that the Burmese military will not be invited to attend the G7 ASEAN meeting of foreign ministers in person. In an answer to a question in Parliament asked by Lyn Brown MP, published last night (19th October), Amanda Milling MP, the Foreign Office Minister …
The undersigned organisations raise serious concerns about violations of freedom of religion or belief in Burma/Myanmar, which have increased significantly since the military illegally seized power on 1 February 2021. We call on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to personally lead high-level efforts to address this growing crisis. We have seen in the recent past …
20 companies from 15 countries have been added to the ‘Dirty List’. The total number of companies on the ‘Dirty List’ is now 102. Total, Chevron, Keurig/Dr Pepper, Lloyds Register, Hilton, GAIL and Kogas are among 20 companies added to the Burma Campaign UK ‘Dirty List’ today. The ‘Dirty List’ names and shames companies which …
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the government of Greece to enforce European Union sanctions on Burmese military companies. Greek shipping company Conbulk Ship Management has repeatedly been using the military owned Hteedan port in Yangon, despite its owners, Myanmar Economic Corporation, being sanctioned by the European Union. Burma Campaign UK has twice written to …
More than 52,000 people have signed a petition to Nick Clegg, the Facebook Vice-President of Global Affairs, calling on him to take down the Facebook pages of Burmese military companies. United Nations investigators have detailed how these military owned companies help fund the military and the human rights violations they commit. Nick Clegg and Facebook …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a call by the European Parliament for more European Union (EU) sanctions on state owned banks, gas revenue, and the State Administrative Council, a body set up by the military after the coup. The European Parliament passed a Resolution on 7th October calling for further action by the EU. It …