Burma protest at six European Embassies

Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity

Date: 10 - 03 - 2011 (Thursday)

Time: 11am sharp.

Location: outside The Globe Pub, Opposite Baker Street tube station. (Please come and join in time, don’t be late!)

Wai Hnin, daughter of Ko Mya Aye, will be leading a protest visiting the embassies of six European countries which have failed to publicly support a UN inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. The countries are Sweden, Latvia, Norway, Luxembourg, Germany and Denmark. Wai Hnin will be handing in a letter to each embassy, asking why they are not taking action to support her father and other political prisoners in Burma.

10th March is Ko Mya Aye’s 44th birthday. A leader of the 88 Generation Students, he has been in jail since 2007 for his role in the uprising that year. The UN has ruled that his detention is arbitrary and illegal. Arbitrary detention is in violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute. It is a crime against humanity. There are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma.

So far ten European countries are publicly supporting a UN Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.

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