Category Archives: MAP Press Releases

Press Release: the Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP  London, 9 December 2022: A senior UN official has denounced the double standards of the international community in taking robust action on Ukraine while failing the people of Myanmar. Meanwhile, there have been calls for the British government to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court, as it didContinue reading “UN Official Denounces Lack of Action on Myanmar, as UK Parliament Lit Up with Image of Executed Myanmar Dissident, to Mark UN Human Rights Day”

Jakarta 26 September 2022: The Constitutional Court in Jakarta has held its first hearing into whether the law governing the Human Rights Court can be changed, allowing a case to be brought in Indonesia against perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Myanmar. Salai Za Uk Ling, Deputy Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights Organisation saidContinue reading “Prosecuting Burmese Perpetrators of Serious Human Rights Violations in Jakarta: Indonesia’s Constitutional Court Holds First Hearing into Law 26 of 2000 concerning the Human Rights Court”

London 12 September 2022: The Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP, has called on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to accept the credentials of the incumbent Ambassador of the National Unity Government (NUG), Kyaw Moe Tun. In a report published today, MAP also calls on the UN to resolve the chaotic situation of Myanmar’s representation across the UN system.  Continue reading “Press Release: MAP Urges UN General Assembly to Approve Credentials of Myanmar’s Democratic Ambassador “

Press Release, Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP   Embargoed until 0000 19 August 2022  London, 19 August, 2022: According to a legal opinion published today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has a clear legal obligation to accept the declaration of Myanmar’s democratic, National Unity Government (NUG) providing the consent of that state for the Court to exerciseContinue reading “The International Criminal Court Must Engage with Myanmar’s Democratic Government and Investigate Atrocities Committed by the Military Junta”

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”

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”

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”

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”