Burma Campaign UK
Civil Society Organisations Deeply Concerned by On-going Violence against Stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and their Refoulement from Bangladesh The stateless Rohingya of Myanmar have suffered from extreme persecution and discrimination for decades. They are now facing another crisis. On 3 June inter-communal violence erupted, and this has evolved into large-scale state sponsored violence against the …
Burma Campaign UK has received reports of violent intimidation, beatings and arrest of supporters of the National Democratic Party for Development (NDPD), an ethnic Rohingya party. These reports add to the increasing number of reports from across Burma of intimation of political activists before, during and after the fake election on 7th November. Reports received …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a new report – Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas – published by the Irish Centre for Human Rights. The report was supervised by Prof Schabas, an expert on international human rights law, who served as one of the seven commissioners on the Sierra …
Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas is published by the Irish Centre for Human Rights. The report was supervised by Prof Schabas, an expert on international human rights law, who served as one of the seven commissioners on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The report was funded by …
This report by The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) provides first hand testimony from Rohingya who have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, violence, extortion, human trafficking and forced labour in Malaysia. The report reveals for the first time the patterns of movement by Rohingya across South East Asia, providing an unprecedented insight into the cycle …
The Burma Campaign UK is deeply concerned by consistent reports from sources in Rakhine State, Burma that there could be widespread violence against the Rohingya in the coming week. The regime ruling Burma appears to be stoking communal violence, exploiting existing tensions between the mainly Buddhist Rakhine and muslim Rohingya people. In addition, there has …
Media Release From Glenys Kinnock MEP MEPs urge Thailand not to return Rohingya refugees BURMA Campaign UK patron GLENYS KINNOCK MEP led a European Parliament call for Thailand not to send Rohingya refugees back to Burma to face repression and torture. In a Parliamentary resolution voted on 5th February, Euro-MPs also urged Thailand to ensure …
The Burma Action Group (UK) is expressing grave concern at the continued forced repatriation of Rohngya refugees in Bangladesh to Burma. Recent reports from aid workers in the area continue to confirm that the situation is critical. In the early months of 1992, 280 000 Rohingyas sought refuge in Bangladesh in order to escape the …
Fourteen Europe-based rights groups have urged the European Union to close a sanctions loophole that allows European companies to keep working in Myanmar’s gas sector, reports Mizzima. The groups include Burma Campaign UK, Fortify Rights and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). The joint statement said it was deeply alarming that the military could gain …
Fourteen advocacy groups, including Burma Campaign UK, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), and Fortify Rights, have demanded that the European Union sanction Myanmar’s entire oil and gas extraction industry, reports the Democratic Voice of Burma. The joint statement calls on the EU to forbid European companies from working on oil and gas projects in the …