Britain Must Support International Investigation into Rape and Sexual Violence in Burma

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, more than 2,000 campaign postcards are being delivered to the British Foreign Office calling on Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to support the establishment of an international investigation into rape and sexual violence committed by the Burmese Army. The postcards were signed by supporters of Burma Campaign UK. […]

Rohingya Organisations Condemn the ‘Cowardly’ Murder of 23 Young Cadets Members of the Kachin Independence Army and Call for Inter-Ethnic Solidarity

We endorse the United Nationalities Federal Council’s condemnation of Burma’s military and its ruling party in the un-provoked and ‘cowardly’ murder of young Kachin officer cadets by the Burma Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion 389, based at Khaya Bum in Kachin State, by the intentional firing of 105 mm artilleries at the military academy of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) situated at Woi Chyai Bum on November 19, 2014 at 12:36 PM […]

ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံ ဘံုသေဘာတူညီခ်က္မ်ား အေကာင္အထည္ေဖၚေရး ေပါင္းစပ္ညွိႏိႈင္းမႈေကာ္မတီ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတိုင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ ကြပ္ကဲမႈေအာက္ရွိ၊ ခမရ ၃၈၉ လက္ေအာက္ခံ တပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားက ကခ်င္လြတ္လပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔၊ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္း သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းအား အေျမာက္ျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ခ်င္း အမ်ိဳးသားတပ္ဦးမွ အရာရွိေလာင္းႏွစ္ဦးအပါအ၀င္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီးမွ အရာရွိေလာင္း ၂၃ ဦးက်ဆံုးခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ၂၀ ဦး ထိခိုက္ ဒါဏ္ရာ ရရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသျဖင့္ မိမိတို႔အေနျဖင့္ အထူးတုန္လႈပ္ေျခာက္ျခားကာ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲမိပါသည္။ […]

KIA ဗိုလ္ေလာင္း သင္တန္းေက်ာင္း တိုက္ခိုက္ခံရမႈအေပၚ SYCB ၏ သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏုိဝင္ဘာလ၊ (၁၉)ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ခယာဘြမ္အေျခစုိက္ ျမန္မာ့ တပ္မေတာ္ ေျချမန္တပ္ရင္း (၃၈၉)တပ္ဖြဲ႕မွ ဝုိင္က်ဳိင္ဘြမ္၌ တည္ရွိေနေသာ ကခ်င္လြတ္လပ္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ KIA ၏ အရာရွိ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းသင္တန္း ေက်ာင္းအား (၁၀၅)မမျဖင့္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရွိ ႀကံရြယ္ ပစ္ခတ္တုိက္ခုိက္မႈေၾကာင့္ သင္တန္းသား(၂၃)ဦးက်ဆုံးခဲ့ၿပီး (၂၀)ဦး ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာ ရရိွသြာ ခ့ဲသည့္ […]

‘If they had hope, they would speak’: The Ongoing Use of State-Sponsored Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Communities

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In January 2014, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) published a report which demonstrated the systematic use of rape by the Burma Army as a strategy to subjugate communities across the country. We documented over a hundred cases of sexual violence in the years since President Thein Sein took office – a number which we believe grossly underestimates the true scale of the problem. Drawing on evidence gathered by our member organisations across Burma, we argued that there are clear links between militarisation, investment and human rights abuses. We also proposed a number of steps to uproot the culture of impunity which surrounds sexual violence, and prevents survivors from obtaining justice. Whilst recent months have seen positive action taken in several areas, the pillars which provide impunity for perpetrators of human rights abuses remain in place. In January, we called for constitutional reform to place the military under civilian control; the establishment of effective judicial and non-judicial mechanisms to investigate human rights abuses, particularly those relating to sexual violence, and; greater participation of women in the peace process dialogue. […]

‘If they had hope, they would speak’: The Ongoing Use of State Sponsored Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Communities

(Yangon, November 24, 2014) – Burma Army soldiers continue to engage in acts of sexual violence on a widespread scale, and women and human rights defenders in ethnic communities face harassment and persecution, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) said in a new report published today to coincide with International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. […]

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေၾကညာခ်က္-၁၃/၁၁/၂၀၁၄

ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္မွ ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KIA) မွ အရာရွိမ်ား ထိခိုက္က်ဆုံးရျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

KIA ဗိုလ္သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းသို႔ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈအေပၚ ရခိုင္အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား အစည္းအရုံး၏ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း သ၀ဏ္လႊာ

၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ၊ (၁၉)ရက္ေန႕၊ မြန္းလြဲ ၁၂း၃၆ အခ်ိန္တြင္ ဗမာတပ္မေတာ္ ေျချမန္တပ္ရင္း (၃၈၉)တပ္ဖြဲ႕မွ KIO ႀကီးမွဴးဖြင့္လွစ္ေသာ အရာရွိေလာင္း သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းအား(၁၀၅)မမျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းမ်ား တေနရာတည္း၌ စုပံုက်ဆံုးျခင္းျပင္းထန္ေသာ ထိခိုက္ ဒဏ္ရာရမွဳ မ်ားျဖစ္ရျခင္းတို ့ကိုသိရွိလာရပါသျဖင့္ မိမိတို ့ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အစည္းအရံုးမွ မ်ားစြာ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲ ရပါသည္။ […]

KNU Position Statement on Tatmadaw’s Bombardment with Heavy Weapons on KIO Military Officer Academy

1. We were much saddened on receiving the news that 23 young cadet officers were killed and 20 others wounded, who were attending the KIO Military Academy, due to Myanmar Tatmadaw’s bombardment with heavy weapons on November 19, 2014 […]