Press Release for Immediate PublicationLondon, 28 June 2022: The Human Rights Minister of Myanmar’s National Unity Government, Aung Myo Min, has demanded NUG representation at all United Nations bodies and has denounced the UN Human Rights Council decision to leave Myanmar’s seat empty. Speaking on the side lines of a webinar co-hosted by the AsiaContinue reading “Press Release: Myanmar’s Democratic Government Demands Representation on All UN Bodies”
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Press Release: MAP Demands the Expulsion of Myanmar’s Military Attache in London as part of its “Junk the Junta” Campaign
Press Release, Myanmar Accountability Project, London, 26 June, 2022: MAP Director, Chris Gunness, today called on Boris Johnson and his Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, to expel Captain Soe Aung, the military attache in London of the illegal Myanmar junta, which seized power in February last year. Speaking at a protest outside the residence of SoeContinue reading “Press Release: MAP Demands the Expulsion of Myanmar’s Military Attache in London as part of its “Junk the Junta” Campaign”
Statement by Chris Gunness, Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project Delivered at a Demonstration Outside the Indonesian Embassy in London on 16 June 2022
Indonesian Embassy in London, 16 June 2022 There are two alarming developments that are yet more evidence that the Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN, is abandoning key commitments in its own charter, which call for respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law and which also call for “people-centred” solutions toContinue reading “Statement by Chris Gunness, Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project Delivered at a Demonstration Outside the Indonesian Embassy in London on 16 June 2022”
မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် အပေါင်းပါများကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုဖြင့်တရားစွဲရန် တူရကီက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်
မြန်မာ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်အပါအဝင် မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စုအဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုနဲ့စွဲချက်တင်နိုင်ဖို့ တူရကီအာဏာပိုင်တွေက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုတွေ စတင်ပြုလုပ်နေပြီဖြစ်တယ်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတာဝန်ခံမှုစီမံချက် (MAP) အဖွဲ့က ဇွန် ၁ ရက်မှာ ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။ ဒီအမှုကို တူရကီနိုင်ငံ အစိုးရရှေ့နေရုံးမှာ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုနဲ့ စွဲချက်တင်နိုင်ဖို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ တာဝန်ခံမှုစီမံချက် Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP အဖွဲ့က ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပြီး စစ်အုပ်စုက ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်သူတွေရဲ့ နာမည်တွေကို သူတို့အဖွဲ့က တရားရုံးကို ပို့ပေးမှာ ဖြစ်ကာ နိုင်ငံတကာ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က သူတို့ကိုဖမ်းဖို့လည်း ကနဦးတောင်းဆိုထားခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ MAP အဖွဲ့က ဒါရိုက်တာ ခရစ္စဂန်းနက်စ်က “ဒီလို မကြုံစဖူး စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်လိုက်တာဟာ ထိပ်တန်းစစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်တွေကနေ အနိမ့်ဆုံးအဆင့်အထိ တကမ္ဘာလုံးက စောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ကိုContinue reading “မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် အပေါင်းပါများကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုဖြင့်တရားစွဲရန် တူရကီက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်”
Turkish Authorities Open Unprecedented Investigation into Myanmar Junta
Press Release from the Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP London 1 June 2022: The Turkish Authorities have initiated a preliminary investigation into members of the Myanmar junta, including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led a failed coup in February last year. This is the first time that any national authority has opened an investigation into atrocityContinue reading “Turkish Authorities Open Unprecedented Investigation into Myanmar Junta”
MAP Director, Chris Gunness, explains to the BBC Burmese Service why UK policy to Myanmar is a “dog’s dinner”
MAP in the Malaysia Sun
Criminal charges of torture filed against Myanmar junta leaders in Turkey
Press Release: Unprecedented Criminal Procedure Against Myanmar Junta Launched in Turkey Criminal Complaint for Torture and Crimes Against Humanity Filed in Istanbul
Press Release: Myanmar Accountability Project Istanbul, 29 March, 2022: This is the first case to be brought in a foreign jurisdiction for crimes committed by the Myanmar junta since the coup in 2021. The complaint was filed at the Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul by the Lawyer, Gülden Sönmez, acting for MAP on behalf of victimsContinue reading “Press Release: Unprecedented Criminal Procedure Against Myanmar Junta Launched in Turkey Criminal Complaint for Torture and Crimes Against Humanity Filed in Istanbul “
Press Release: Unprecedented Legal Case To Launch in Turkey Against Myanmar Junta
Press Release, Myanmar Accountability Project London, 24 March, 2022: The Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP, will lodge a criminal file for torture against members of the Myanmar junta at the Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul on 29 March 2022. “This is the first case to be initiated in a national court outside Myanmar into crimes that haveContinue reading “Press Release: Unprecedented Legal Case To Launch in Turkey Against Myanmar Junta”