Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK recently launched a campaign against the plan by Malaysia to hand over thousands of Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military. Thankfully, the plan did not go ahead as planned. Not because Malaysia decided to do the right thing, but because the Burmese military refused to take them. Almost 1,500 refugees and migrants …
The situation for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority has once again taken a deeply troubling turn, as news breaks of Malaysia’s alarming plan to deport around 5,000 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, says Japanese blogging platform Hatena Blog. Burma Campaign UK has launched a global campaign, calling this forced return “refugee ping pong,” pushing vulnerable people back …
Burma Campaign UK has called on the government of Malaysia to halt its planned handover of 5,000 Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military, reports Mizzima. “Instead of countering hate speech, the Malaysian government is pandering to it,” said Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK. “Playing refugee ping pong, handing Rohingya refugees to the Myanmar military at …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the government of Malaysia to halt its planned handover of Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military, reports Progressive Voice. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has also invited the head of the Burmese military regime, Min Aung Hlaing, to visit Malaysia. “The Malaysian government is putting the lives of thousands …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the government of Malaysia to halt its planned handover of Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military, stating that playing refugee ping pong is not a solution to the crisis. Malaysia has announced that it plans to hand 5,000 Rohingya refugees to the same military which is committing ongoing genocide …
Joint statement by 71 organisations August 25, 2026, marks nine years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched a widespread campaign of atrocity crimes against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces killed thousands of Rohingya women, men, and children and razed several hundred Rohingya villages throughout northern Rakhine State, forcing at least 700,000 …
Joint Statement August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed Rohingya women, men, and children throughout northern Rakhine State, forcing at least 700,000 to flee to …
Thank you to Baroness Nye and Lord David Alton for raising the dire situation for Rohingya in the refugee camps in Bangladesh in Parliament, and pressing the new Labour government to reverse damaging aid cuts. Read the full debate
We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations, have been working to establish the facts of the ‘Naf River Massacre’ that occurred in Maungdaw, Rakhine state, on 5th August 2024. Based on interviews and documentation of first-hand accounts by survivors and eyewitnesses, so far we have established the following. On 5th August 2024, an estimated number of at …
Today in the House of Lords, UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron was pushed on calling a UN Security Council meeting on Burma’s non-implementation of provisional measures set out by the International Court of Justice, to halt the Rohingya genocide. Burma Campaign UK has been campaigning for this, and it is great to see the pressure …