Myanmar Task Team

Myanmar (Burma) has lived under military dictatorship for six decades since the coup led by Ne Win in 1962. Even during the NLD (National League for Democracy), the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which had five years to 2020, and the transition government (headed by former general Thein Sein) for five years…

The conflict in Myanmar is in the midst of a profound transformation, with the groups confronting the Myanmar military shifting their focus from the consolidation of control over areas they consider historically theirs into the establishment of a new form of federalism a federalism created from the bottom up. This is an evolving process that…

Global order in retreat… normalisation of unrestricted warfare. Reflections in these troubled times by Antonio Donini, a UAI co-founder. Comments welcome. All pictures are taken by Antonio himself.

In August 2017, the Myanmar military launched a genocidal assault on the country’s Rohingya population, a Muslim minority who are not recognized as citizens and who have been subject to egregious forms of state discrimination and persecution for many years. Antony Allen reminds readers as to specific and dramatic conditions of the Rohingya who have not fled Myanmar and live under military persecution.

The political, human rights and humanitarian emergency in Myanmar continues to escalate. Dr Jeff Crisp, Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre, spells out the consequences of a continued tight grip on power by the military junta, especially on civilians and Rohingya refugees.

A panel event held on 23 January 2023, hosted by The Diplomacy Society of University College London in collaboration with United Against Inhumanity (UAI) in the UK.

UAI in the UK’s Dr Jeff Crisp will join Kaamil Ahmed to discuss his book “I Feel No Peace: Rohingyas Fleeing over Seas and Rivers”. Open the link to register for the event in person or on line.

Our May Newsletter focusing on Cross-Channel boats and the Rohingya.

UAI’s April 2023 Newsletter covering news on Afghanistan, Myanmar, and the global Asylum system, amongst other items.

UAI in the UK is a member of the Atrocity Prevention Working Group (APWG), a UK-based civil society network. The APWG has made a submission to the UN Human Rights Council entitled ‘The Role of New Technologies in the Prevention of Genocide’.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are under growing pressure to return to Myanmar, despite the egregious human rights violations committed by the country’s military junta. And the United Nations appears to be supporting this process.

Monday 23rd. January 2023 18:30 to 20:30 (GMT) THIS EVENT IS FREE Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the situation for ordinary people in the country has become more and more desperate. What can be done? The Diplomacy Society at University College London, in collaboration with UAI in the UK, will host…

The UN has a major role to play in Myanmar, but unfortunately, it continues to fail.

As G20 leaders meet in Bali, they need to pay attention to the atrocities being committed by the military junta in Myanmar. In her article, Florence Duchet sets the scene and identifies what needs to be done.

The Rohingya are a population in constant peril. Subjected to terrible inhumanities in Myanmar, and as refugees in Bangladesh and other countries in the region, they are crying out for respect and rights. In their article, Crisp and Hassan ask if anybody is listening

As our screens show the war in Ukraine, rises in the cost of living, and catastrophic weather events, desperate cries for justice can easily be overlooked…..