Remaking Rakhine State: Amnesty International’s new report
March 13, 2018Six months after the military launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive the Rohingya population out of Myanmar, efforts to remake the region are well underway, according to Amnesty International’s new report. The scale of the change is matched only b …
AAPP report on political prisoners January 2018
February 16, 2018There are 229 individuals oppressed in Burma due to political activities. 45 are currently serving prison sentences, 51 are awaiting trial inside prison, 133 are awaiting trial outside prison. In January, 11 people were arrested. Five were charged, car …
AAPP report on political prisoners December 2017
January 17, 2018There are 236 individuals oppressed in Burma due to political activities. 46 are currently serving prison sentences, 52 are awaiting trial inside prison, 138 are awaiting trial outside prison. In December, eight people were arrested, two of whom were s …
“Caged without a roof”: Amnesty says attacks on Rohingya amount to apartheid
December 14, 2017Amnesty International’s new report exposes the human rights crisis that was, and remains, the backdrop to the Rohingya crisis. The report maps in detail the violations, in particular discrimination and racially-based restrictions in law, policy and pra …
AAPP report on political prisoners November 2017
December 13, 2017There are 228 individuals oppressed in Burma due to political activities. 46 are currently serving prison sentences, 49 are awaiting trial inside prison, 133 are awaiting trial outside prison. In November, three people were arrested, three people were …
Suffering in shadows: displaced persons in Kachin and northern Shan States
December 12, 2017Refugees Interntional’s field report says reductions in international aid, waning attention, and dramatically increased restrictions on assistance by the government is creating a desperate and unsustainable situation for displaced persons in Kachin and …
Foreign Affairs Committee: Violence in Rakhine State and the UK’s Response
December 6, 2017The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published its report “Violence in Rakhine State and the UK’s Response”. Burma Campaign UK contributed evidence to this report, which concludes: “The violence against the Rohingya in Northern Rakhine in …
“They tried to kill us all”: atrocity crimes against Rohingya – Fortify Rights
November 21, 2017A new report by Fortify Rights with the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide documents the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing committed by Burmese state security forces and civilian perpetrators in two waves of attacks on Rohing …
“All of my body was pain”: Rohingya rape survivors – Human Rights Watch report
November 21, 2017Since August 25, 2017, Burmese security forces have committed widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine State. Human Rights Watch’s new report is based on interviews wi …
AAPP report on political prisoners October 2017
November 16, 2017There are 221 individuals oppressed in Burma due to political activities. 45 are currently serving prison sentences, 49 are awaiting trial inside prison, 127 are awaiting trial outside prison. In October, five people were arrested, four people were cha …