We are an independent Myanmar civil society group and
we are on a mission to defend the right of Myanmar people to
democratic representation in all international forums.
The military junta that is currently illegally occupying the institutions of national government in Myanmar is not, by any definition, a government.
When foreign governments engage with the military junta as such,
this risks significant harms for the people of Myanmar, including:
decisions being made unlawfully on behalf of the people of Myanmar;
legitimising the military junta and assisting their attempts to appear as a government;
emboldening the junta to continue to commit atrocities against the people of Myanmar; and
assisting the military junta in its (to date unsuccessful) quest to take full control of the country.
We are calling on all foreign governments, intergovernmental institutions and other international organisations to ensure that the people of Myanmar are represented by the democratically elected representatives,
not by the military junta.
Further, we call on the international community to help us hold the military accountable for the genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity that they have committed against the people of Myanmar with blanket impunity.
