Burma Campaign UK
Facebook announced yesterday that it would ban all Myanmar-military controlled businesses from its platforms, the latest in a series of restrictions aimed at the Myanmar armed forces. The Diplomat quotes Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, who said Facebook had “resisted significant pressure to take down military companies’ pages” since before the February coup. …
As Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visits the UK asking for support against the threat of invasion by the Russian dictatorship, Burma Campaign UK today accused him of hypocrisy for continuing to arm and equip the genocidal Burmese military. Dmytro Kuleba claims Ukraine is a bastion of support for human rights and democracy at the …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Facebook that they will finally take down the Facebook pages of military companies, reports the Eurasia Review. “By hosting military company pages Facebook helped the military make money which funded the international crimes they committed,” said Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK. “The belated decision to …
Facebook has expanded its ban on postings linked to Myanmar’s military to include all pages, groups, and accounts representing military-controlled businesses, reports the Seattle Times. Burma Campaign UK welcomed the move but said Facebook had resisted taking down military companies’ pages. “The belated decision to remove military company pages appears more an act of desperation …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Facebook that they will finally take down the Facebook Pages of military companies. Burma Campaign UK has been calling on Facebook to take this step for many years, as have many Burmese civil society organisations. The Facebook announcement is available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/an-update-on-myanmar/ “For years Facebook resisted significant …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Argentinian judiciary has taken the historic step to open a court case against the Myanmar military – including Min Aung Hlaing and much of the current junta’s senior leadership – over the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today. On the 26 November 2021 the Second Chamber …
Joint letter from 259 organisations calling on INTERPOL to immediately ban the Myanmar military junta from representing Myanmar as a member of INTERPOL: 22 November 2021 To: Kim Jong Yang, INTERPOL President; Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL General Secretary; the INTERPOL Executive Committee and INTERPOL Member Countries Subject: Call on INTERPOL to ban the illegal junta from …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the UK, US and EU to urgently implement further economic sanctions and take other steps, following the failure of the UN Security Council to agree effective action or even refer to the situation in North-Western Burma in a statement yesterday. The statement is available here. Burma Campaign UK and …
We, the undersigned 521 Myanmar, regional and international civil society organizations, call on the UN Security Council to urgently convene a meeting on the escalating attacks in Chin State, and address the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in Myanmar. We call for the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to consolidate …
Myanmar’s military has been accused of torching and occupying churches and killing and detaining pastors in its latest brutal offensive in Chin state on the northwest border with India, reports the Telegraph. Fears rise that the military is building up to a major assault on the majority Christian state. “The situation in North-Western Burma today …