Zoya Phan, Programme Director of Burma Campaign UK, spoke at an ODI event today on humanitarianism and human rights in Syria and Myanmar. She discussed the need for more humanitarian aid in Burma and more international pressure on the Burmese military.
Zoya said that four years since the military coup (and much longer for ethnic minority communities), the junta has been deliberately targeting civilians across the country, and people are simply exhausted. Three and a half million are currently internally displaced (likely more) – the highest number in the country’s history – but Zoya has some optimism, as for the first time ‘we hear more and more about what Burma will look like without the Burmese military’.
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