Burma is now well and truly out of the news, but nothing in the country has changed. The brutal military regime is still in place, Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest, monks are still imprisoned and being mistreated, and the general population suffers under a harsh regime which thrives on keeping them in poverty and fear.

Don’t forget Burma is a website set up with a self explanatory name. It’s a creative site asking you to post a photo with the words ‘Don’t forget Burma’. The reason for this website is to show that we have not forgotten.

As my friends know I am half Burmese, my dad being Burmese, and so it is true that I have a particular passion and interest to see justice in this country. But you do not need to have a connection with Burma to realise that the brutally of what is happening here is wrong and needs to be changed.

Please keep campaigning, Post a picture, join the facebook group but more importantly keep writing to your MP and, if you can, visit a surgery – words were spoken by politicians when the protests and violent clampdowns were on our TV screens, now that the images have vanished we need to encourage our government to act on those words.