{"id":148769,"date":"2019-12-02T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=148769"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:40:55","slug":"boycott-myanmar-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/12\/boycott-myanmar-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Myanmar Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We urge you to stand with the country’s oppressed national minorities.<\/em><\/p>\n

We seek your solidarity with and participation in our grassroots activism campaign to bear economic, cultural and popular pressure on Myanmar so that the coalition government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the military may end the country’s persecution, discrimination and violence against the country’s ethnic and religious minorities.<\/p>\n

As you may be aware Myanmar is being taken to the International Court of Justice, the world court, by the Gambia\u00a0for allegedly violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which the country ratified in 1956.<\/p>\n

This 9 December,\u00a0the International Genocide Day, we human rights activists worldwide are standing up for Myanmar\u2019s oppressed communities:\u00a0 we are initiating an international \u201cBoycott Myanmar Campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n

Our campaign is inspired by and modeled after S. Africa’s anti-apartheid boycott movement which helped trigger the end of the apartheid regime, helped free Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid leaders, and ushered in a new era of racial equality for the majority S. African blacks.<\/p>\n

UN and other credible investigations have documented Myanmar\u2019s racist exclusion and discrimination against its Muslims, its national policies of violent and systematic persecution of Rohingya people, and state-directed military repression against its other national minorities such as Shan, Kachin, Ta\u2019ang, Karen, Chin, Mon and\u00a0Kayar (Kayah) communities.<\/p>\n

The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights situation in Myanmar have officially called for accountability and justice for Myanmar\u2019s minority victims of \u2018gravest crimes in international law\u2019 including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Rakhine and Kachin states.<\/p>\n

But the international community \u2013 from the permanently-divided Security Council to regional blocs such as the Association of South East Asian Nations and liberal democratic governments of the West\u00a0\u2013 have failed the wretched of Myanmar.\u00a0 Besides, international corporations and foreign investors with commercial interests in and ties with the resource-rich Myanmar, from Singapore to Japan and S. Korea to India and China, as well as\u00a0 other investors, have shown utter indifference to the cries of Myanmar\u2019s oppressed communities, languishing in internment camps and war zones inside the country, and vast refugee camps across Bangladesh and Thai borders.<\/p>\n

We urge you to use your power as citizens\u00a0and consumers, both individually and as representatives\/members of activist networks, religious communities, educational institutions, or professional or parliamentary associations.<\/p>\n

Join hands with us.\u00a0 Boycott businesses whose dollars fuel genocide and other crimes.\u00a0 Cut institutional ties with Myanmar that has commissioned genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against its own peoples.<\/p>\n

Will you add your name to a growing coalition of organisations when we launch the Boycott Myanmar Campaign on December 9?\u00a0 You can send a “yes” to Maung Zarni, if you agree: fanon2005@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On or after December 9, you can also register at our website, BoycottMyanmar.org<\/a>, in order to receive updates on events and how you can take action.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

THANK YOU!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

__________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Buddhist humanist from Burma, Maung Zarni is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge, UK. His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian and<\/em> the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education) , National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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