Communiqué by Heads of Missions of the European Union

1. The embassies of France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the EU Delegation have just concluded a four-day mission to Northern Rakhine State. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Government of Myanmar for the excellent cooperation and hospitality extended to us during this mission, and notably to the Union Minister for Border Affairs, Lieutenant General Thet Naing Win, the Chief Minister of Rakhine State, U Hla Maung Tin, and the Deputy Minister of Immigration and Population, U Kyaw Kyaw Win, and their teams […]

Statement From Members Of The European Burma Network

Members of the European Burma Network express their deep concern at reports of further massacres of members of the Rohingya ethnic group in Burma. The report by the United Nations that at least 48 Rohingya men women and children have been killed, and that police were involved, provides yet more evidence that the current approach by both the government of Burma and the European Union to address ongoing abuses against the Rohingya is failing […]

Myanmar National Human Rights Council Urged to Free Aung Soe

Burma Campaign UK today urged U Win Mra, the Chairman of the Myanmar National Human Rights Council to call for the establishment of a permanent review mechanism for political prisoners, and the immediate release of Aung Soe and all remaining political prisoners in Burma […]

ထားဝယ္ေတာင္သူလယ္သမားမ်ား ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ပုဂၢလိက ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုခုမွျဖစ္ေစ ျပည္သူမ်ားပိုင္ဆိုင္ေသာ လယ္ယာေျမမ်ားေပၚတြင္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရး စီမံကိန္းမ်ား ေဖာ္ေဆာင္မည္ဆိုပါက ထိုက္တန္ေသာ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေပးျခင္း၊ လယ္ယာေျမအစားထိုးေပးျခင္း၊ ျပည္သူမ်ား ေဒသခံမ်ားႏွင့္ ေက်လည္ေအာင္ ညွိႏႈိင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ျပီး သေဘာတူညီမႈရရွိမွသာ […]

No End in Sight For Political Prisoners in Burma – Permanent Review Mechanism Needed

Members of the European Burma Network today call for the establishment of a permanent independent review mechanism to address the ongoing problem of political prisoners in Burma.

The release of hundreds of political prisoners in the past three years has been long overdue and is very welcome. However, it is now clear that despite government claims that all political prisoners have been released, many people remain in jail because of their political activities, ethnicity or religion […]

Rohingya Women and Children Raped and Killed

On 13th January 2014, in the early morning at around 3 am, a group of police, security forces, military and Rakhine entered Kiladaung village, south of Maungdaw, Arakan State. They entered a house and demanded valuables, gold and money from the Rohingya woman living there. Her husband had hidden when they saw the security forces approaching. When the woman refused to give them her jewellery, the security forces raped and killed her. When her children began shouting, many villagers came and violence started […]

Statement on Child Soldier

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရႏွင္႔ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာအလုပ္သမားအဖြဲ႔(ILO)တို႕ၾကား ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုထားသည္႔ နားလည္မႈစာခၽြန္လႊာအရ ကေလးစစ္သားအျဖစ္ စုေဆာင္းခံထားရသည္႔ သူမ်ားအားစီစစ္၍ ျပန္လည္တပ္ထြက္ခြင္႔ျပဳထားပါသည္။ ဤသို႔ စီစစ္အတည္ျပဳေဆာင္ရြက္ေန စဥ္ကာလအတြင္း ကာယကံရွင္ႏွင္႔ မိသားစုမ်ားအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပး သည္႔လူပုဂၢိဳလ္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားအားလည္းေကာင္း […]

Systematic Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Areas: New Report

Today marks the launch of an important new report documenting ongoing crimes of sexual violence-over 100 cases documented since 2010, including 47 gang rapes–perpetrated by the Burmese military in ethnic regions of Burma.

The Women’s League of Burma (WLB), consisting of thirteen women’s organizations representing different ethnic areas in Burma, released the report, “Same Impunity, Same Pattern: Sexual abuses by the Burma army will not stop until there is a genuine civilian government, “and is urging an immediate end to these atrocities […]

Training War Criminals? – British Training of the Burmese Army

The British government are spending £87,850 on military training for the Burmese Army without setting any preconditions on their improving human rights and supporting democratic reform.

Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing paper, ‘Training War Criminals? – British Training of the Burmese Army’, examining the British government’s controversial military training to the Burmese Army […]

51st Anniversary of Ta’ang National Resistance Day Statement

The 51 anniversary commemorating the armed struggle of all Ta’ang nationals to get free from Myanmar’s dictatorial governments’ oppression falls on 12 January, 2014.

On this remarkable resistance day, we, the PSLF/TNLA Central Committee, send our deepest respect and take great pride in our heroic nationals who gave their lives and lost possessions during the 51 years of the revolutionary road towards the creation of a Ta’ang Nation […]