Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made representations on the killing of nine ethnic Rakhine protesters in Rakhine State’s Mrauk U Township to the Burmese Government; and if he will support an investigation into that incident.

The UK is deeply concerned by the killing of protestors in Mrauk U on 16 January. The British Embassy in Rangoon released a statement on 17 January offering condolences to the families of those killed and calling on the authorities to investigate the incident.