For many years the United Nations has ignored widespread and systematic crimes committed by Burma’s military junta, including the destruction of more than 3,300 villages in eastern Burma, widespread use of rape as a weapon of war against ethnic minorities, the forced displacement of over 1 million refugees and internally displaced people, tens of thousands of child soldiers, and millions used as slave labour.
Despite these appalling crimes, no government is speaking out on this issue. The British Government should urge the United Nations to establish a Commission of Inquiry, which would investigate these crimes and could lead to prosecutions. So far the British Government has remained silent.
Please write to your MP and ask them to support the call for the United Nations to investigate crimes against humanity in Burma.
Take action here:
http://www.burmacam paign.org.uk/index.php/campaigns/crimes-against- humanity/ 13/132
Or you can post a letter to your MP. Below are suggested points for you to include in your letter:
* State your concern about crimes against humanity in Burma. There is well documented evidence including from UN General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights resolutions over many years of widespread torture, forced displacement, sexual violence, extra-judicial killings and forced labour and that civilians are deliberately targeted.
* For many years, the United Nations has ignored widespread and systematic human rights violations and war crimes committed by the military regime.
* Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 238, which calls upon the British Government to urge the United Nations to establish a Commission of Inquiry into these crimes and to support the International Labour Organization referring the dictatorship’s use of forced labour to the International Court of Justice.
You can send your letter to your MP at:
House of Commons
London, SW1A 0AA
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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