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Tata Make Tetley Tea - and equipment for Burma’s military
Tata is a huge Indian company. In the UK they are best known for the Tetley tea brand, owning Jaguar and Land Rover, and investments in the steel industry.
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. He has been in hiding since 1 May 2019.
Boycott Kirin Ichiban! In Business with the Burmese Military
Tell Kirin to stop doing business with the Burmese military. Kirin must stop funding genocide.
Tell DFID to help victims of military abuses in Burma
The annual British aid budget for Burma is almost £90 million a year, but not enough of it is reaching people from ethnic minorities who have fled attacks by the Burmese military.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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