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Like most people I'm ashamed our nation is doing so little for the people of Burma.

British businesses profit from selling Teak wood from Junta owned plantations, or from selling products made by or for asian companies in burma - for example Matsui, Daewoo, etc. Not to mention using buying oil and other resources from oil and mineral companies that fund the dictatorship.

If our government had an ethical foreign policy they would ban imports from burma and impose strict sanctions, but they have no spine and no morals. It's apparently ok to blockage Iraq until the children there starve, and then bomb and mismanage it into oblivion, but it's not ok to sanction an equally apalling dictatorship in the far east.

Anyway, there are things you can do - you can email/fax/write to your MP demanding Parliament take action, imposing import bans and sanction unilaterally, as well as pushing for sanctions in the UN, you can also take immediate action to writing to and/or boycotting those businesses that fund the junta