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Position of Civil Society Organizations on the case against Myanmar by the International Court of Justice regarding the potential indication of provisional measures to prevent genocide  View PDF of statement here. Political and military policies have always been imposed with violent…

Press release by Shan community groups Shan community groups launched today a new video, The Four Cuts, documenting atrocities committed by the Burma Army during past “clearance operations” in Shan State.  On December 11, 2019, State Counsellor Aung San Suu…

Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK Myanmar’s deeply flawed investigation into human rights abuses in Rakhine State is another attempt to whitewash the Tatmadaw’ s brutal violence against the Rohingya, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said. The Independent…

The British government has publicly welcomed the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), having previously avoided expressing support for the case. The Gambia brought forward charges of genocide of the Rohingya to the court and the…

Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new Briefing Paper, ‘The Boycott List’, listing products and brands produced by Burmese military-owned companies. 149 products and brands are listed, covering a wide range of sectors from construction, media, entertainment, agricultural products and…

Media Release From Burma Campaign UK & International Campaign for the Rohingya Burma Campaign UK and International Campaign for the Rohingya today welcomed notification from Western Union that they have stopped using the military-owned Myawaddy Bank as one of their…

Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to join the 59 countries already supporting the case of genocide against Burma at the International Court of Justice. To date, the 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Canada…

In our blog on 10 December, we wrote about why Aung San Suu Kyi may have decided to personally lead the defence against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Now that the first round…

Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The International Court of Justice (ICJ) must act on the powerful arguments by The Gambia’s legal team and immediately impose strong provisional measures to end Myanmar’s genocide against the Rohingya, the Burmese Rohingya…

Here is Aung San Suu Kyi”s statement to the International Court of Justice defending Burma against charges of genocide. The statement can be downloaded here.