Burma Campaign UK
Media Release From The Office of Rushanara Ali MP MPs call for Myanmar Military referral to International Criminal Court Following the UN fact finding mission, over 160 Parliamentarians call for justice over the Rohingya crisis. Over 160 Parliamentarians across parties have signed a letter urging PM Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP to …
Doug Janke, Head of Development, on Burma Campaign UK’s stall at this week’s Trades Union Congress in Manchester. Thank you to the TUC for supporting human rights and democracy in Burma.
The Shan Human Rights Foundation reports that the Burma Army conscripted porters, shot indiscriminately into a village and detained over 50 elderly people, women and children during “clearance operations” near the Upper Yeywa dam site in northern Shan State. Local villagers are strongly opposed to the Upper Yeywa dam. In southern Shan State, Burma Army troops and …
Anna Roberts, Executive Director of Burma Campaign UK, was interviewed for Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on the sentencing of two Burmese journalists working for Reuters to seven years in jail for obtaining state secrets as they researched the killing of 10 Rohingya men in 2017. A police witness alleged that the journalists were victims of a …
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation From July 23 to August 9, 2018, Burma Army troops from five battalions – LIB 115, 501, 504, 505, 506 — carried out a “clearance operation” in villages north of the Upper Yeywa dam site in Kyaukme, northern Shan State. They forced 21 villagers to be porters and …
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government has not spoken out for the Rohingya nor used its powers to release the two Reuters journalists imprisoned for reporting on their plight, says the Christian Science Monitor. The military are responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Rakhine State. “They have all the levers of power,” says Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s director. …