Tonight from 8pm-9pm, Channel 4 will be broadcasting a major new documentary about Burma. The programme, Dispatches – Burma’s Secret War, was filmed inside Burma by an undercover journalist, and exposes the regime’s mass ethnic cleansing and forced labour, and the role of the UK in funding the regime.

In Burma’s Secret War, Dispatches exposes the new surge in violence inflicted on the Burmese people by their own regime. Enslaved by a brutal military dictatorship which wields absolute power, Burma is a secretive state where suppression reigns and dissent is not tolerated. Journalist Evan Williams, who is banned from entering the country after reporting on Burma for more than 10 years, goes undercover to investigate the mass ethnic cleansing, forced labour and vicious clamping down of political opposition which characterise the dictatorship.

This is happening today and every day and does not reach the news, I believe, because th country has nothing to offer us as far as successive governments have decided.

Please watch the program and, if moved, write to your MP and the PM and Foreign Sectretary afterwards. Things can be changed, but only if the international community speaks out.

Silence condones the action.