Britain training monstrous Myanmar military

BLiTZ
Vijaya Laxmi Tripura
June 29, 2019

 

Despite the fact of the Burmese military having an appalling human rights record, Britain has been giving training to this monstrous regiment at the cost of British tax-payers.

In September 2017, a group of 157 MPs called on the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to halt Britain’s military training in Myanmar, which cost the UK around £305,000 in the previous year. Although in response, Mr Jhonson said, Britain was not giving any combat training to the Myanmar military. Rather it was educating them on democracy, leadership and the English language.

Britain's Conservative Party in denial over depth of Islamophobia

UPI
April 17, 2019

By Afzal Khan

British Prime Minister Theresa May's answers to questions about Islamophobia in her party have come up woefully short. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo

April 17 (UPI) -- In an article published on April 1, Britain's Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis wrote about how "a single case of anti-Muslim hatred in the Tory Party is one too many."

Plight of Rohingya Muslims tied to Britain, Japan and World War II.

nzherald.co.nz

16 Mar, 2019

Nearly one million Rohingya refugees are in Bangladesh. Photo / The Washington Post by Ismail Ferdous

Washington Post
By: Jayita Sarkar analysis

Last month the United Nations and its partners appealed for US$920 million ($1.34 billion) to assist nearly one million Rohingya refugees now encamped in Bangladesh. These refugees are fleeing the violence in the northern part of the Rakhine state in Burma. That violence has been perpetrated by the Burmese military under the pretext that the Rohingya are not citizens of Burma, also known as Myanmar, but "resident foreigners" from Bangladesh who neither speak the Burmese language nor are part of Burma's myriad ethnic groups.