It is vital that the international community takes responsibility for bringing an end to the current conflict in Burma by speaking out.
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Christian Aid believes that any long term political solution in Burma must involve ethnic nationality groups and the pro-democracy movement.
Any political agreement must ensure the rights and aspirations of all Burma’s people are met.
Decades of military rule and economic mismanagement in Burma have resulted in widespread poverty and barely functioning health and education systems.
Currently only three per cent of the government’s budget is spent on health but 30 to 50 per cent goes to the armed forces.
Human rights abuses are widespread and include forced labour, torture, rape and forced displacement.
Christian Aid supports partner organisations inside Burma as well as those working with Burmese refugees across the border in Thailand.
Christian Aid is working with partners, the Burma Campaign in the UK and the Asian Human Rights Commission in Asia, which lobby both the UK government and Asia policy makers to take action on Burma.
The current crisis developed after the military government announced fuel price rises on 15 August. The price of diesel was doubled and the cost of cooking oil increased by 500 per cent.
These had significant impacts as 90 per cent of Burma's 50 million people live on less than a dollar a day, according to UN estimates.
Initial demonstrations were small but the turning point came on 5 September when soldiers injured a number of monks and the government refused to apologise.
Daily marches through a number of cities including Rangoon, Mandalay and Sittwe have grown with an estimated 100,000 demonstrators - monks and civilians – joining in this week.
The regime had been relatively restrained until September 26 when riot police attacked monks and up to seven deaths were reported.
In 1988, the last time large protests were seen on the streets, a brutal crackdown killed at least 3,000 people.