Zoya Phan
@zoyaphan.bsky.social
Programme Director at Burma Campaign UK. Author of Little Daughter and Undaunted. Director at Phan Foundation. TED Fellow 2009/ YGL 2010
Burmese military airstrikes in Thandwe, Rakhine, on New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2025. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country. Governments must impose more targeted sanctions, cut the supply of arms, revenue, equipment and aviation fuel.
January 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Burmese military airstrikes in Thandwe, Rakhine, on New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2025. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country. Governments must impose more targeted sanctions, cut the supply of arms, revenue, equipment and aviation fuel.
4,000 people took part in a protest against Burmese military’s sham election in Hpa-an township of Kawthoolei.
Photo- Karen Youth Organisation (KYO).
Photo- Karen Youth Organisation (KYO).
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
4,000 people took part in a protest against Burmese military’s sham election in Hpa-an township of Kawthoolei.
Photo- Karen Youth Organisation (KYO).
Photo- Karen Youth Organisation (KYO).
My interview with Karen Vibes regarding Burmese military's sham elections. ယတဲသကိးတၢ် ဒီး Karen Vibes! မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ အတုအယောင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး Karen Vibes နဲ့ ကျွန်မရဲ့ အင်တာဗျူးပါ။
Watch the interview here- youtu.be/DuDkNGt_1P0?...
Watch the interview here- youtu.be/DuDkNGt_1P0?...
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My interview with Karen Vibes regarding Burmese military's sham elections. ယတဲသကိးတၢ် ဒီး Karen Vibes! မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ အတုအယောင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး Karen Vibes နဲ့ ကျွန်မရဲ့ အင်တာဗျူးပါ။
Watch the interview here- youtu.be/DuDkNGt_1P0?...
Watch the interview here- youtu.be/DuDkNGt_1P0?...
British government should support people-led development. “As the Burmese military continue to fight for their survival and are desperate for legitimacy, the British government must not throw a lifeline for them."
My quotes in an article in East Bylines- northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
My quotes in an article in East Bylines- northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
Pressure grows on UK government to take action on Myanmar
UN expert Tom Andrews urges the UK to rally global opposition to Myanmar’s sham election and strengthen action on human rights
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
British government should support people-led development. “As the Burmese military continue to fight for their survival and are desperate for legitimacy, the British government must not throw a lifeline for them."
My quotes in an article in East Bylines- northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
My quotes in an article in East Bylines- northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ 'ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ'- ရက်စွဲအသစ်၊ အန္တရာယ်အသစ်နှင့် မပြောင်းလဲသည့်အတုအယောင်များ
The Burmese version of Burma briefing: ‘The Burmese Military's 'Elections': New Date, New Danger, Same Sham.’ Published by Burma Campaign UK.
The briefing paper is available here: burmacampaign.org.uk/burma_briefi...
The Burmese version of Burma briefing: ‘The Burmese Military's 'Elections': New Date, New Danger, Same Sham.’ Published by Burma Campaign UK.
The briefing paper is available here: burmacampaign.org.uk/burma_briefi...
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ 'ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ'- ရက်စွဲအသစ်၊ အန္တရာယ်အသစ်နှင့် မပြောင်းလဲသည့်အတုအယောင်များ
The Burmese version of Burma briefing: ‘The Burmese Military's 'Elections': New Date, New Danger, Same Sham.’ Published by Burma Campaign UK.
The briefing paper is available here: burmacampaign.org.uk/burma_briefi...
The Burmese version of Burma briefing: ‘The Burmese Military's 'Elections': New Date, New Danger, Same Sham.’ Published by Burma Campaign UK.
The briefing paper is available here: burmacampaign.org.uk/burma_briefi...
Happy Karen New Year 2765! အှ်ဆံင်းလာ့ဆာ် ပ်ုဖၠုံဏိင်းထင်းသင့်မူ့ဏီ. ကညီနံၣ်ထီၣ်သီသးဖှံ! ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးမှာပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။ ဖျိၩ့ နံၪ့ထၪ့၁ၫ့ မုနံၩ မုၬမုၬ 🫶🏽
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happy Karen New Year 2765! အှ်ဆံင်းလာ့ဆာ် ပ်ုဖၠုံဏိင်းထင်းသင့်မူ့ဏီ. ကညီနံၣ်ထီၣ်သီသးဖှံ! ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးမှာပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။ ဖျိၩ့ နံၪ့ထၪ့၁ၫ့ မုနံၩ မုၬမုၬ 🫶🏽
Burmese military air attacks in Ma Mu village, Mutraw, killed a 4 year old boy and injured 12 villagers. All 12 houses in that small village were destroyed, 12 Dec 2025. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country ahead of their sham elections.
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Burmese military air attacks in Ma Mu village, Mutraw, killed a 4 year old boy and injured 12 villagers. All 12 houses in that small village were destroyed, 12 Dec 2025. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country ahead of their sham elections.
Burmese military's airstrikes targeted a hospital in Rakhine State on Human Rights Day, 10 Dec 2025, killed more than 30 people. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country ahead of their sham elections.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Burmese military's airstrikes targeted a hospital in Rakhine State on Human Rights Day, 10 Dec 2025, killed more than 30 people. The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across the country ahead of their sham elections.
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An article that everyone working on Burma should read. Even though the article is about the Karen, it shares similar situation of what is happening across the country. The article is by Naw Wahkushee, Director at Karen Peace Support Network, published by Mizzima. eng.mizzima.com/2025/12/13/2...
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
An article that everyone working on Burma should read. Even though the article is about the Karen, it shares similar situation of what is happening across the country. The article is by Naw Wahkushee, Director at Karen Peace Support Network, published by Mizzima. eng.mizzima.com/2025/12/13/2...
Human rights are universal; they belong to everyone, no matter where you are from, where you live, your race, ethnic, religion, language, gender or wealth. Everyone is entitled to the same human rights. At World Liberty Congress in Berlin, November 2025.
#StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay
#StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Human rights are universal; they belong to everyone, no matter where you are from, where you live, your race, ethnic, religion, language, gender or wealth. Everyone is entitled to the same human rights. At World Liberty Congress in Berlin, November 2025.
#StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay
#StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay
“Retaking Our Eastern Border.” A new report by Karen Peace Support Network. တၢ်ဒုးနၢၤမၤန့ၢ်ကဒါက့ၤ ပဟီၣ်ကဝီၤတၢ်လီၢ်တၢ်ကျဲလၢမုၢ်ထီၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၢတဖၣ်. ကရင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအထောက်အကူပြုကွန်ယက်မှ"အရှေ့ဘက်နယ်စပ်ကိုပြန်လည်သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်း"ခေါင်စဉ်ဖြင့်အစီရင်ခံစာထုတ်ပြန်ချက်။
Burmese version here: url-shortener.me/2ILL
English version here: url-shortener.me/2ILH
Burmese version here: url-shortener.me/2ILL
English version here: url-shortener.me/2ILH
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“Retaking Our Eastern Border.” A new report by Karen Peace Support Network. တၢ်ဒုးနၢၤမၤန့ၢ်ကဒါက့ၤ ပဟီၣ်ကဝီၤတၢ်လီၢ်တၢ်ကျဲလၢမုၢ်ထီၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၢတဖၣ်. ကရင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအထောက်အကူပြုကွန်ယက်မှ"အရှေ့ဘက်နယ်စပ်ကိုပြန်လည်သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်း"ခေါင်စဉ်ဖြင့်အစီရင်ခံစာထုတ်ပြန်ချက်။
Burmese version here: url-shortener.me/2ILL
English version here: url-shortener.me/2ILH
Burmese version here: url-shortener.me/2ILL
English version here: url-shortener.me/2ILH
There are more than 1 million political prisoners around the world, and this issue was highlighted at the World Liberty Congress in Berlin. Free all political prisoners!
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#WorldLibertyCongress
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#WorldLibertyCongress
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There are more than 1 million political prisoners around the world, and this issue was highlighted at the World Liberty Congress in Berlin. Free all political prisoners!
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#WorldLibertyCongress
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#WorldLibertyCongress
My interview with Radio Karen regarding World Liberty Congress in Berlin, Germany. youtu.be/BI86OZW2taE?...
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My interview with Radio Karen regarding World Liberty Congress in Berlin, Germany. youtu.be/BI86OZW2taE?...
“This sham election is not about political reform or genuine peace in the country. History has already shown that the Burmese military is not interested in genuine peace and democracy, they just want to consolidate their power and continue the...,” Zoya Phan told DVB.
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Twenty-five Karen groups join Karen National Union in rejecting the regime's 2025-26 elections - DVB
Twenty-five Karen civil society groups “overseas,” led by the Karen National Union (KNU), released a statement on Monday that it has condemned the regime’s 2025-26 elections which are scheduled to beg...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“This sham election is not about political reform or genuine peace in the country. History has already shown that the Burmese military is not interested in genuine peace and democracy, they just want to consolidate their power and continue the...,” Zoya Phan told DVB.
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30 Karen organisations call for urgent international cooperation following the KNU's crackdown on a major transnational scam center. We call on USA, EU & member states, UK, Canada, Australia and all potentially impacted countries to offer support to KNU and Thailand to help deal with this crisis.
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
30 Karen organisations call for urgent international cooperation following the KNU's crackdown on a major transnational scam center. We call on USA, EU & member states, UK, Canada, Australia and all potentially impacted countries to offer support to KNU and Thailand to help deal with this crisis.
Karen National Union calls for international cooperation to tackle transnational crimes and scam operation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Karen National Union calls for international cooperation to tackle transnational crimes and scam operation.
Today, Burmese military airstrikes in Dooplaya, targets civilian places. The jet they use come from other countries. The fuel they use to fly the jet comes from abroad. The bombs they drop are purchased using military controlled banks from income from abroad. Please cut off their supplies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today, Burmese military airstrikes in Dooplaya, targets civilian places. The jet they use come from other countries. The fuel they use to fly the jet comes from abroad. The bombs they drop are purchased using military controlled banks from income from abroad. Please cut off their supplies.
Rights and democracy in practice at #WorldLibertyCongress, through elections and voting. Even though I cannot vote in my own country, here at World Liberty Congress, I had the privilege to vote for the leadership. At German parliament.
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rights and democracy in practice at #WorldLibertyCongress, through elections and voting. Even though I cannot vote in my own country, here at World Liberty Congress, I had the privilege to vote for the leadership. At German parliament.
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
Wonderful to spend time with friends from Cambodia, Mu Sochua and Samady Ou, opposition leaders from Cambodia, very courageous and inspiring. The Khmer Movement for Democracy is working hard for change in their homeland. #WorldLibertyCongress, Berlin.
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Wonderful to spend time with friends from Cambodia, Mu Sochua and Samady Ou, opposition leaders from Cambodia, very courageous and inspiring. The Khmer Movement for Democracy is working hard for change in their homeland. #WorldLibertyCongress, Berlin.
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
#unitedagainstdictators #togetherwearestronger
A privilege to attend the opening of the first ever Berlin Freedom Week – People from Berlin, from across Germany and from around the world came together to celebrate freedom. A reminder of how the previous generations were working hard for today's freedom.
With #WorldLibertyCongress
With #WorldLibertyCongress
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A privilege to attend the opening of the first ever Berlin Freedom Week – People from Berlin, from across Germany and from around the world came together to celebrate freedom. A reminder of how the previous generations were working hard for today's freedom.
With #WorldLibertyCongress
With #WorldLibertyCongress
Burmese military drones attacks in Kler Lwee Htu, killed one man and destroyed 6 houses, on 6 November 2025. ကီၢ်ပယီၤသုးမီၤစိရိၤ ခးလီၤတၢ်ဒီးဒြိဖဲချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ်. The Burmese military use jets, helicopters, and drones to drop bombs, and they deliberately target schools, medical centres, religious sites and homes.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Burmese military drones attacks in Kler Lwee Htu, killed one man and destroyed 6 houses, on 6 November 2025. ကီၢ်ပယီၤသုးမီၤစိရိၤ ခးလီၤတၢ်ဒီးဒြိဖဲချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ်. The Burmese military use jets, helicopters, and drones to drop bombs, and they deliberately target schools, medical centres, religious sites and homes.
We have been there before, where the Burmese military had sham elections in 2010, then followed by U Thein Sein fake reform. The international community lifted sanctions and supported this sham process, which has enabled the Burmese military to receive more revenues and built more military power.
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
We have been there before, where the Burmese military had sham elections in 2010, then followed by U Thein Sein fake reform. The international community lifted sanctions and supported this sham process, which has enabled the Burmese military to receive more revenues and built more military power.
Karen communities around the world reject Burma’s sham elections, call for international action. The Burmese military, after the sham election, will likely try to fake another reform process. EU, USA, UK, ASEAN and others must not support such sham processes as they did after the 2010 election.
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Karen communities around the world reject Burma’s sham elections, call for international action. The Burmese military, after the sham election, will likely try to fake another reform process. EU, USA, UK, ASEAN and others must not support such sham processes as they did after the 2010 election.
ASEAN must unequivocally reject the Burmese military's sham election. ASEAN must not send observers or provide any form of technical or political support to the Burmese military. ASEAN must stand firmly in solidarity with the people of Burma.
#ASEANSummit2025
#ASEANMalaysia2025
#ASEANSummit2025
#ASEANMalaysia2025
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
ASEAN must unequivocally reject the Burmese military's sham election. ASEAN must not send observers or provide any form of technical or political support to the Burmese military. ASEAN must stand firmly in solidarity with the people of Burma.
#ASEANSummit2025
#ASEANMalaysia2025
#ASEANSummit2025
#ASEANMalaysia2025