Burma Campaign UK
The Burmese Army is committing horrific human rights abuses in Kachin and Shan States. We don’t live in a country where our children can be bombed while out playing, but this is happening in Burma. Please send a message to the head of the Burmese Army and to Aung San Suu Kyi supporting local communities …
The Karen Women Organization add their voice to the 16 days of activism to stop violence against women. In Burmese military operations in Arakan State over the past months, there have been consistent reports received of widespread, systematic sexual violence against Rohingya women by Burma Army troops. Read statement
Myanmar is “shooting itself in the foot” by banning workers from going to Malaysia, Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, told the Southeast Asia Globe. “It is the Burmese migrants and their families who will suffer most from this move,” he said, “and the Burmese economy which benefits from money sent back.” The ban …
The BBC has obtained footage from inside Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where allegations have emerged of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community. The Burmese military denies it but has banned independent journalists from investigating in the area. Read full story
Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s Director, told the Muslim News: “The international community continues treating the Rohingya as expendable in their efforts to present the situation in Burma as one of a successful transition requiring just technical assistance. “The human rights situation for the Rohingya is getting worse, not better, and it is time their …
As Rohingya in Burma face yet another violent crackdown, an award-winning exhibition on the Rohingya is being held in the British Parliament this week. Today’s opening ceremony was followed by a panel discussion hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma. Read more
Aung San Suu Kyi should act on Rohingya human rights, Burma Campaign UK’s Director Mark Farmaner told French current affairs radio station RFI: “She has moral authority, she has the support of the international community, she could be allowing humanitarian assistance in, there is a whole range of things that she could be doing but …
“It is becoming clearer that the approach of the NLD and the international community is an abject failure which is costing lives and causing immense suffering” writes Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s Director, in Democratic Voice of Burma. Read the full article below or in DVB. In 2006 I received a phone call from a …
Up to 160,000 Rohingya could be at risk of starvation and disease because of blocks on aid by the Burmese government and military. Call on UN Secretary General António Guterres to go to Burma to persuade the government and military to let the aid in. Take action
On the international day for the elimination of violence against women, please join us to stand with the women of Burma to end rape and sexual violence. Take action
Burma Campaign UK director Mark Farmaner said that Bangladesh is “effectively sentencing Rohingya to death” by refusing them entry. “They are fleeing violations of international law and Bangladesh has a responsibility to help. The international community should be pressuring Bangladesh to open its borders and accept international aid being offered to help Rohingya refugees,” Farmaner …
Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC. Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency. Read full story
Burma Campaign UK today delivered 3164 signatures on a petition calling on the NLD-led government in Burma to take four key steps to start to address the Rohingya crisis in Burma. Read more
Burma Campaign UK team with student leaders from All Burma Federation Of Student Unions. Thank you to Moe Htet Nay, Min Thawe Thit, Honey Oo and Thiha Win Tin for visiting us and sharing your campaigning work with us.
In answer to Lord Alton’s question on the upsurge in violence against Rohingya Muslims by the Burmese military, Baroness Anelay said: We condemn the attacks on 9 October in northern Rakhine and the killing of nine Burmese Border Guard policemen. Read full answer
BCUK at the British Parliament in a meeting with MP from Burma Susanna Hla Hla Soe and the Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons.
BBC News reports that pressure is growing on Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate claims that the Burmese army has been abusing Muslim civilians. Four weeks ago militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority killed nine policemen. Since then the army has shut down the area, and reports have followed of extra-judicial …
Burma Campaign UK team with Andy Hall, a Human rights defender working for the rights of migrants in Thailand, including migrants from Burma. The Supreme Court of Thailand has finally dismissed a criminal defamation case against Andy Hall after almost 4 years. Read more on the campaign to drop the charges against Andy Hall.
Mark Farmaner, Director at Burma Campaign UK, commented on the New York Declaration to Radio Free Asia: “The declaration has welcome aspirations but no mechanisms for monitoring and implementation,” he told RFA. “There should be a binding convention on the rights and treatment of IDPs, with monitoring and public annual reports naming and shaming countries …
Burma Campaign UK’s Zoya Phan with students at Oxford International Relations Society after a discussion on human rights in Burma at Oxford University.
Our call for the EU to continue the UN General Assembly resolution on human rights in Burma is covered by the Myanmar Times: Pressure is growing on the European Union to again table a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution critical of Myanmar’s human rights record, after the EU signalled last week that the 28-nation bloc …
Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, joined calls for maintaining a tough line on human rights at the UN General Assembly. “Discontinuing the resolution will encourage the military to believe they can continue to commit human rights violations and block constitutional reform without any consequences,” he told The Myanmar Times. Read full article
More than 100 political prisoner remain in jail. Take action here.
This article in Myanmar Times quotes Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK: “The US imposed sanctions in response to human rights violations, and they are still taking place,” Zoya Phan, a political activist from the Burma Campaign UK, told The Myanmar Times. “Lifting sanctions will just encourage the Myanmar military to think they …