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Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release: 12th August 2021 The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) condemns the Myanmar junta’s plans to deliberately withhold COVID-19 vaccinations from some 130,000 Rohingya forced to live in crowded camps in and around Sittwe, the main city in Rakhine state. A Reuters report quotes a junta-appointed …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release: 28th July 2021 Burma Covid Crisis – Urgent International Response Needed Burma Rohingya Organisation UK today called for a much faster and larger international response to the Covid crisis currently afflicting Myanmar. The whole country is suffering under a new widespread wave of Covid, with …
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Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release: 16th July 2021 The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today welcomes the report The UK government’s response to the Myanmar crisis published by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British Parliament. We join with the committee’s calls for justice and accountability, a global arms embargo, …
BROUK Welcomes British Parliament Report Calling for End of Myanmar Military’s Impunity Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release: 22nd June 2021 BROUK welcomes new sanctions announced by the EU and the UK on the 21st June, targeting more financial interests of the Myanmar military as well as individuals with links to the military dictatorship. “It is of outmost importance that the international community …
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Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For immediate release: 24th May The genocide against Rohingya shows no sign of abating in Myanmar, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said in a new briefing today, timed to coincide with Myanmar’s duty to report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on how it is preventing …
New briefing uncovers how Rohingya genocide continues after Myanmar military coup Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) For Immediate Release: 20th May 2021 The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today voiced dismay over cuts in British government aid to Rohingya refugees. The cuts were announced as international donors pledged $340 million in support of Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Bangladesh for the …
BROUK ‘dismayed’ over British aid cuts to Rohingya refugees Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) and the international community must put justice for atrocity crimes at the centre of all efforts to restore democracy following the military coup, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said. In a new briefing released today, BROUK sets out the paths available to …
New briefing highlights how a democratic Myanmar is impossible without justice Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK Southeast Asian leaders must unite to push the Myanmar junta to end horrific abuses against ordinary people and ensure it does not recognise the military as the country’s legitimate rulers, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is holding a …
ASEAN: Last chance to prove it can save Myanmar from disaster Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK On 1 April, BROUK hosted five esteemed panelist as part of an online event to discuss international action on the coup in Myanmar. Thin Lei Win moderated the event as more than 400 attendees joined to hear Dr. Sasa, Thomas Andrews, Naomi Kikoler, and Matthew Smith, and BROUK …
UN Security Council Barriers are no Excuse for International Inaction on Myanmar Read More »
Press release BROUK welcomes the simultaneous decision on 25 March by the UK and US in direct sanctions against the Tatmadaw’s economic interests, chiefly the Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC). These military-owned conglomerates have been major sources of income for the Burmese military, enabling its human rights violations and …