Burma Campaign UK
The EU is considering ending Burma’s tariff-free access to the world’s largest trading bloc in a significant ramping up of pressure against the regime, reports the Dubai-based National. Campaign groups criticised the plan as it would not hurt senior military figures responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority and will hit thousands of young women …
The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar calls for the Burmese military to face the International Criminal Court, criticises Aung San Suu Kyi for failure to use her position or her moral authority, and chides the UN for its failure to address human rights concerns. Reporting on Asia-Pacific affairs, the Diplomat says “Yet hitherto, as Mark Farmaner …
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government has not spoken out for the Rohingya nor used its powers to release the two Reuters journalists imprisoned for reporting on their plight, says the Christian Science Monitor. The military are responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Rakhine State. “They have all the levers of power,” says Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s director. …
Being a journalist is dangerous in Burma today. Both the military and Aung San Suu Kyi’s government target journalists who report the truth about what is happening in the country. On 3 September 2018, two journalists who work for Reuters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were jailed for seven years for seeking to expose …
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 …
A UN report published today has said Burma must be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The UN Fact Finding Mission said “top military generals, including Commander in Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State, as well as for crimes …
Following the release of an interim report by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission calling for Min Aung Hlaing and other senior generals to be investigated and prosecuted for the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, Burma Campaign UK today repeated its call for the British government to support referring Burma to …
Interview with Radio France International Next week the UN will discuss the Rohingya crisis, and a report if an 18-month UN fact-finding mission will be published on Monday. Many campaigners hope that the UN Security Council will refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to answer allegations of ethnic cleansing and even …
One year since the pre-planned military offensive against the Rohingya, more than 1 million Rohingya now live as refugees in Bangladesh. More than half are children. Conditions in the camps are appalling, despite the efforts of UN and international aid agencies, local and international civil society groups, and the Rohingya themselves. The international community stresses that any …
When Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese military, launched his pre-planned military offensive against Rohingya civilians last August, the majority of those he targeted were children. A new UNICEF report, Futures in the Balance, https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/UNICEF_Child_Alert_Rohingya_Aug_2018.pdf details the devastating impact on children who fled to Bangladesh. It calls for long term planning to support refugees, …