Burma Campaign UK
Catherine West, Labour MP and member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on International Trade, joined Mark Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK and others on the panel at a roundtable discussion in London on Monday organised by the Justice For Rohingya Minority, reports Turkey’s Anadolu Agency. “The UK can play a leading role in ending the crisis and bringing …
Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, joined the panel at a roundtable discussion held in London on Monday by the Justice For Rohingya Minority on the genocide against the Rohingya. Also on the panel was Catherine West MP, who said that Britain should use its influence at the United Nations Security Council and table a motion to …
The new Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promised during today’s debate in the House of Commons said he would raise the case of the imprisoned Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, when he visits Burma. “The two journalists were doing what is in the very best traditions of all journalism: exposing evil and bad …
Burma Campaign UK today condemned the sentencing of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and urged Aung San Suu Kyi to release them today, and to repeal all repressive laws, which are being used to keep journalists, human rights activists and others in jail for political reasons. “The NLD-led government has the power to immediately …
The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar calls for the Burmese military to face the International Criminal Court for genocide as well as for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Yet, as Mark Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK told the Diplomat, no world power has come forward to state their acceptance of the Fact-Finding Mission’s recommendations …
The Karen Community Worldwide welcomed the UN report calling for the Burma military to be referred to the International Criminal Court to be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against the country’s ethnic people. The Karen Community Worldwide pointed out in their statement, endorsed by 36 Karen organisations, that the UN …