Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese Army, is on a red carpet tour of Germany and Austria.
His soldiers are raping ethnic women, shooting children, bombing villages. Instead of applying pressure on him to end abuses, Austria and Germany are taking him to dinner, sightseeing, and he has even been taken to the factory of a military supplier.
Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh are telling horrific stories of the human rights violations taking place.
Children have described how Burmese Army soldiers snatched their brothers and sisters from their mothers and threw them into burning homes.
Women have described watching soldiers kill their husbands before the soldiers rape them until they lose consciousness.
Up to 160,000 Rohingya could be at risk of starvation and disease because of blocks on aid by the Burmese government and military.
Please take action to call on UN Secretary General António Guterres to go to Burma to persuade the government and military to LET THE AID IN.
Khaing Myo Htun, a Rakhine human rights activist, was arrested on 25th July 2016 for exposing human rights abuses committed by the Burmese Army.
It is now five years since the Burmese Army resumed attacks in Kachin State. In that time:
Burma Campaign UK has been fighting for human rights in Burma for 25 years. From our beginnings as a small solidarity group in the wake of the military crackdown after the 1990 election in Burma, we have built the campaign to become the leading Burma campaign group in the world, working with activists from Burma to achieve real change.
On Saturday 11th June, a fantastic team of our supporters, volunteers and staff for our Burma Tour will be taking part in a sponsored walk, 15 miles across London for our Burma Tour - along the route we’ll be hearing about Burmese places of interest in London. We are walking to raise money for our campaign to end human rights abuses in Burma.
Join over 100 high profile women, including Dame Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Jo Brand, Gillian Anderson, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters and Zoë Wanamaker, and stand with the women of Burma to end rape and sexual violence.
Sign up to the pledge to support:
Lahpai Gam is a Kachin farmer who was arrested in June 2012 by the military-backed government in Burma. He was charged under Article 17/1 of the Unlawful Association Act, and he is serving a 21 year prison sentence in Myitkyina Prison.
The Burmese government is using a combination of human rights violations and impoverishment to try to drive the ethnic Rohingya out of Burma.
Reports by international legal experts say that human rights violations against the Rohingya constitute ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and that there is also evidence that genocide is being committed.
