ABOUT US

We are a group of young Burmese people, who aspire to create a Forum in which Burmese individuals in the UK and the existing political and ethnic groups can come together and discuss specific issues and questions. We are not affiliated with any existing organisations or coalitions and are not funded by any bodies. We aim to make the forums action-oriented, enabling coordination of activities between existing groups and establishing effective networks.

Thank you so much for keep supporting for FREE BURMA.

EVENTS - Activities Gallery is available under Collections Tab.

Invitation to Burma Hearing

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission will hold a hearing on Burma. It will be chaired by Tony Baldry MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, and the Commission will hear evidence from:
  1. Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, former deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and principal prosecution trial attorney in the case against Slobodan Milosevic. Sir Geoffrey was one of five leading international jurists who commissioned the report Crimes in Burma, by Harvard Law School.
  2. Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, campaigner and daughter of Mya Aye, a political prisoner in Burma.
  3. Bwa Bwa Phan, a Karen refugee, representative of the Karen National Union (KNU) in UK, Vice-Chair of the Karen Community Association-UK and Board Member of the European Karen Network.
  4. Anna Roberts, Director of the Burma Campaign UK.
Date: Monday 18th January
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room O at Portcullis House

CAMPAIGNS

Global Arms Embargo Action
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk

Below are the first targets in building global support for a global arms embargo. We need to build global consensus for a global arms embargo. You can help by clicking on each country listed below to be taken to a page where you can contact their Foreign Minister and their ambassador in the UK.

Canada
   
   
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Global Campaign for Free Aung San Suu Kyi
http://www.64forsuu.org

Show your support and add your message today. Just go to http://www.64ForSuu.org to add a video, text, image or twitter. If you¹re using Twitter, please tweet your 64 with the hashtag #assk64The launch on 27th May coincides with the day that, according to the Burmese regime, Aung San Suu Kyi¹s house arrest expires. The UN has already ruled
that her detention is illegal. More than 2,100 political prisoners are being held in Burma¹s jails.

On 18th May Aung San Suu Kyi was put on trial, charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an American man, John Yettaw, swam to her house and refused to leave. The dictatorship is using the visit as an opportunity to extend her detention. Her trial is ongoing and she could face a further five years in detention.

64forSuu.org aims to demonstrate the scale of outrage over her continued detention by encouraging high profile individuals and the public around the world to write a 64 word message for Aung San Suu Kyi¹s 64th birthday on June 19th.

Finally, please, do add your message at http://www.64ForSuu.org
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Early Day Motion (1336) - Human Rights in Burma
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38487&SESSION=899
That this House expresses profound concern at the desperate and deteriorating human rights situation in Burma; condemns the continuing widespread and systematic use of rape as a weapon of war, torture, forced labour, forced relocation, religious persecution, forcible recruitment of child soldiers and use of human minesweepers by the military regime; further condemns the military offensives in eastern Burma, including attacks on civilians, resulting in the internal displacement of one million people and the destruction of more than 3,300 villages in eastern Burma alone, and the imprisonment of over 2,100 political prisoners and continued detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi; calls on Her Majesty's Government to draw these gross violations of human rights to the urgent attention of the UN Security Council and the Secretary-General; urges Her Majesty's Government, along with other governments, to propose the establishment of a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma; and urges the UN to invoke the principle of Responsibility to Protect in relation to the crisis in Burma.

For this campaigns, you may need to go and tell your local Member of Parliament (MP) about crisis in Burma and ask he/she to sign this petition. You may know who is your MP is by following web link. http://www.writetothem.com/
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Free Burma's Political Prisoners Now
http://www.fbppn.net/?page_id=5

There are over 2,100 political prisoners languishing in prisons all over Burma. Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now aims to collect 888,888 signatures before 24 May 2009, the legal date that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should be released from house arrest.  This is a united global campaign working with over a hundred groups from around the globe. The petition calls on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make it his personal priority to secure the release of all political prisoners in Burma, as the essential first step towards democracy in the country.
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Burma Campaign UK
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/fbppn.htm
Sign the petition demanding UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon make the release of Burma's political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, his personal priority. We're aiming for 888,888 signatures by May 24th.
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US Campaign for Burma
http://uscampaignforburma.org/arrestyourself2009

Pledge to give up 24 hours of your time sometime between now and June 19th in a show of solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma. For those 24 hours, you will stay at your house (or school, or anywhere you choose) under self-imposed “house arrest”. During your house arrest, invite people to your house or school for a small portion of your “arrest” and hold an educational party about Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma.

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COLLECTIONS

Videos
Activities Gallery
Free Aung San Suu Kyi - 24 Hours Hunger
Strike Demonstration - 18/05/09 to19/05/09
24 hours Hunger Strik in front of Burma Embassy,
London, UK
 Demonstration after 24 hours Hunger Strike in front of Burma Embassy, London, UK

Multi-faith Pray in Colindale Monastery (Sasanaramsi Vihara), London, UK

Performance Art at Burma Embassy, London, UK
On 27/05/09, In front of Burmese Embassy for 19th Anniversary of NLD winning election and Depeyin Massacre in Burma
 On 27/05/09, In front of French Embassy for TotaloutofBurma
20/06/09 - Forum of Burmese in Europe - Day - 1

21/06/09 - Forum of Burmese in Europe - Day - 1
Demonstration on 22/06/09 - In front of Indian Embassy - For Karen and Rakhine freedom fighters
 Oxford Burma Culture Event - 05/07/09
July 2009 - Activities
 August 2009 - Activities
October and November 2009 - Activities

  

Photos are contributed by Ko Thant Zin and Mark.