Burma Campaign UK demands resumption of UK sanctions on Myanmar

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On 15 October, the Burma Campaign UK urged the British government to resume its imposition of sanctions on Myanmar’s military junta. Those sanctions should aim to cut revenue to the junta and access to arms and military equipment it uses to oppress its population.

The text of Burma Campaign UK’s statement is as follows.

It is almost a year since the British government imposed any new sanctions on the Burmese military. The last sanctions targeting the Burmese military were on 29th October 2024.

Following the latest military coup in Burma in 2021, the British government and allies adopted a policy of systematically identifying and sanctioning sources of revenue, arms and equipment to the Burmese military.

Britain led the world in adopting coordinated targeted sanctions to help reduce the capacity of the Burmese military to carry out human rights violations and violations of international law. However, the pace of sanctions from the British government has slowed to a standstill.

The British government has not even kept up with all the sanctions imposed by the USA, EU, Canada and Australia. The British government frequently imposes more sanctions on Russia in a single day than it has on the Burmese military in almost five years.