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Urgent Action: Aid stopped to 9,000 people who fled Burma Army attacks
International donors have cut aid to 9,000 displaced villagers from Shan and Karen States.
They fled their farms and villages following attacks by the Burmese Army, and now most live in jungle and mountain camps in Burma, forced to rely on international aid. Some have lived there for ten years or more.
Burma’s government is making it harder to protect the most vulnerable against COVID-19
For decades, the Burmese military has prioritised military spending over health spending, leaving Burma in a very weak position to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. Treating those that get ill, and the economic consequences of any lockdown, will be a major challenge for Burma’s government. But at the same time, Aung San Suu Kyi’s government is making it even harder for some of the most vulnerable people in the country to receive aid and life-saving information.
Bangaldesh: Lift internet ban for Rohingya refugees
Restrictions in refugee camps in Bangladesh are making it harder to fight coronavirus. Email the Prime Minister of Bangladesh now asking her to permanently lift the internet ban and aid restrictions.
Tell Kirin to stop funding genocide!
Japanese brewery Kirin are in business with the Burmese military. Email Kirin now and tell them to stop funding genocide.
Sanction Burmese military companies
In July 2020, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that in response to human rights violations they described as torture, massacre, systematic rape and forced (slave) labour, Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese military, would be banned from taking holidays in the UK.
At the same time, British companies are still doing business with the Burmese military, helping to fund genocide, but the British government refuses to stop it. They refuse to impose targeted sanctions on military companies.
Why does the EU avoid calling the Rohingya by their name?
Denial of Rohingya identity is part of the genocide against them.
EDF’s ‘life threatening’ dam in Burma
French energy giant EDF is involved in a dam project in Burma which local people say will threaten lives, prolong conflict and threaten the peace process in the country.
Journalist in hiding after death threats and facing arrest
Aung Marm Oo is a journalist currently in hiding from Burma’s notorious Special Branch police, fearing arrest and up to five years in jail.
Student Activists Jailed for Telling Jokes about the Military
Seven student activists were arrested in April 2019 for criticising the military in their satirical performance during the Burmese New Year celebration. They were sentenced to 2 to 4 years imprisonment with hard labour in Insein Prison.
Free All Political Prisoners in Burma
Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released from prison on 7 May. They were sentenced to 7 years in prison in September 2018 for their investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya men buried in a mass grave.
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