Lithuania Supports UN Burma Crimes Inquiry

Burma Campaign UK today welcomed Lithuania’s backing for a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed its support directly to Burma Campaign UK.

Lithuania is the 7th member of the European Union to publicly support an inquiry. The other EU members are Czech Republic, UK, Slovakia, Hungary, Netherlands, and France. The non-EU countries supporting an inquiry are Australia, USA, Canada and New Zealand, bringing the global total to eleven […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (035-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္မွ မဲဆႏၵေပးပိုင္ခြင္႔စာရင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ရာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနထုိင္ရာ ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္၏ မဲေပးခြင့္စာရင္းတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အမည္ပါဝင္ျခင္းမရွိဟု ရန္ကုန္မွလာသည္႔ AP သတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ […]

NDF Support Recommendation for Forming UN Commission of Inquiry

1. The NDF has earnestly welcome and supported recommendation to the UN by its Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Burma (Myanmar), Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, to form a Commission of Inquiry (COI) for crimes against humanity and war crimes perpetrated by the SPDC military clique. The NDF is ready to cooperate fully with such a UN COI.[…]

Week 28: 2010 Election Watch (14-20 September)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission announced that polls would not be held in 3,314 Villages in Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Mon, and Shan States because “they are in no position to host free and fair elections.”
• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the application of 14 Kachin State Progressive Party members to run as independent candidates […]

France supports a Commission of Inquiry

FIDH, Human Rights Watch, Info-Birmanie and French Human Rights League demand the set-up of an international commission of inquiry

They welcome France’s statement and urge the EU to support this initiative at the UN General Assembly[…]

Letter to Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara calling for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry

Dear Foreign Minister,
We write to you regarding the serious human rights situation in Burma. We urge Japan to publicly support the establishment of an International Commission of Inquiry for Burma and to support an annual Burma resolution of the upcoming autumn session of the UN General Assembly which includes a support for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry.[…]

Burma Campaign New Zealand welcomes the New Zealand Government’s endorsement of a Commission of Inquiry on Burma

The Burma Campaign New Zealand applauds the New Zealand Government for their decision to support the establishment of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity in Burma.

New Zealand joins the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in publicly supporting the proposal for an investigation into crimes against humanity in Burma […]

Netherlands Supports UN Burma Crimes Inquiry

Burma Campaign UK today welcomed Netherlands backing for a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.

The expression of support was in response to a draft Resolution in the Netherlands Parliament calling on the government to support an Inquiry, and also work for the establishment of an Inquiry to be included in the forthcoming UN General Assembly Resolution on Burma […]

Submission to the AICHR Meeting, 20-24 September in Kuala Lumpur

More than 50 civil society and people’s organizations from Southeast Asia participated in the Third Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights, organized by the Solidarity for Asian Peoples’ Advocacy Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA-TF AHR), from 16-18 September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The consultation produced this submission to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights ahead of its meeting on 20-24 September 2010 in Kuala Lumpur. This submission concerns the status of AICHR’s Rules of Procedure, its work plan and the drafting process of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (034-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အၿပီးတြင္ နအဖကာကြယ္ေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာန လက္ေအာက္ရွိ ျမဝတီစာေပႏွင့္ ပုံႏွိတ္ထုတ္ေဝေရး လုပ္ငန္းမွ ျမဝတီသတင္းစာ အပါအဝင္ ေန႔စဥ္ထုတ္သတင္းစာ ၃ေစာင္ခန္႔ထုတ္ေဝရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းဂ်ာနယ္အသိုင္းအဝန္းမွဆိုသည္
* ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ ေညာင္ေလးပင္ခရုိင္၊ ေက်ာက္ၾကီးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မေထာကုန္းေက်းရြာ အနီးတြင္ ကရင္အမိ်ဴးသာ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ KNLA တပ္ရင္း (၉) ႏွင့္ နအဖစစ္ ကြပ္ကဲေရးဌာနခ်ဴပ္ စကခ (၁၆)မွ ေျခလ်င္ တပ္ရင္း ခလရ (၂၄၂)တို႔ တိုက္ပြဲဲျဖစ္ပါြးခဲ႔ရာ နအဖဘက္မွ ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈရွိေသာေၾကာင့္ ေဒသခံရြာသား ၂၆ ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးႏိွပ္စက္ေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္ […]