Crimes against Humanity - Write to your MP
For many years the United Nations has ignored widespread and systematic crimes committed by Burma’s military junta.
The British Government should urge the United Nations to establish a Commission of Inquiry into these crimes but so far the British Government has remained silent.
Please write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM: 238 Reports of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma.
Reports
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma report to the UN Human Rights Council
Report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, to the UN Human Rights Council. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the UN consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
The report states…
Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution
Report by the International Center for Transitional Justice calling on the international community to withhold support for Burma’s 2010 elections and not accept the results of the vote unless the government amends the country’s constitution to end impunity for human rights violations.
International crimes committed in Burma: the urgent need for a Commission of Inquiry
This report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) details the serious human rights violations perpetrated by Burma’s military regime, and demonstrates that international crimes have been – and are still being – perpetrated in Burma…
Crimes in Burma
A report from Harvard Law School, commissioned by some of the most respected jurists in international law, using the UN’s own reports to highlight how Burma’s generals have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Internal Displacement and International Law in Eastern Burma
This report from the Thai Burma Border Consortium argues that the SPDC’s actions in Eastern Burma – forced labor, extortion and land confiscation as well as military campaigns that have displaced over 500,000 people - constitute crimes against humanity. The report concludes by arguing that the international community must move…
Crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar
This report by Amnesty International focuses on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in Kayin State and Bago Division between 2005 through 2007. It raises grave concerns that the violations of international human rights and humanitarian law against the Karen described in this report have been part…
More Actions
The dictatorship in Burma is accused of committing crimes against humanity for its widespread and systematic human rights abuses, including torture, forced displacement, sexual violence, extra-judicial killings and forced labour.
Yet no government is speaking out on this issue.
Click on the links below for more actions on crime against humanity.
Statements
The following are statements in support of a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity in Burma.
Nobel Laureates letter to UNSC (PDF Format)
Nobel Women’s Initiative (PDF Format)
Conservative Party supports Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity
- UN Burma Human Rights Expert Backs UN Commission of Inquiry Into Abuses
- Burmese Army Mortar-Bombs Schoolchildren
- UNISON Appeal For UN Commission Of Inquiry On Crimes Against The Burmese People
- European Parliament Rejects Burma Election – Calls For End To Systematic Displacement
- Thailand starts then halts deportation of Karen refugees to Burma
Click here to view photos from the Eastern Burma Crisis. In the past 15 years the regime has destroyed over 3,300 villages, displacing over 500,000 people.