Burma is a terror state—suffering under a ruthless military dictatorship led by General Min Aung Hlaing, propped up by China and Russia.
Be clear: Myanmar functions as a prison.
More than 22,000 political prisoners are held hostage across the country’s gulags—starved, tortured, denied medical care, cut off from their families. Others have been disappeared. Some executed.
Hundreds of villages have been burned.
Airstrikes on civilians are routine.
Millions are displaced, traumatized, and starving.
And yet—the dictatorship still promotes tourism.
Insane, right?
Worse still, hundreds of thousands of travelers continue to go—blind to the horror, insulated from consequence.
Tourism revenue flows directly into the machinery of state-sanctioned terror.
This must stop.
We are calling for an immediate, global boycott of travel to Myanmar—by everyone, everywhere— until political prisoners are freed and democratic rule is restored.
Non-cooperation with terror is one of the few remaining pressures people under tyranny can apply—and one of the few actions anyone, anywhere can take.
Do not travel there.
Say why—openly.
Repeat it until it spreads.
Tell everyone you know.
Then tell them again.
Create your own images.
Make short videos.
Tag airlines, booking platforms, embassies, media outlets, and public figures.
Post.
Repost.
Become a collective pain in the ass.
No tourism under terror.
No flights to a prison state.
Use your freedom—for those who have none and are forced to live in hell.
Let us use our freedom to help free the 22,000 political hostages imprisoned in Myanmar— including Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and Chief Advisor U Win Htein.
Actions You Can Take to Power the Global Boycott of Travel to Myanmar
What follows isn’t a checklist.
It’s an invitation.
A field guide for solidarity.
Use what fits. Amplify what moves you. Repeat without apology.
1. Make Solidarity Go Viral
Share the boycott—graphics, statements, videos—across every platform you touch: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, wherever people still listen.
Add one simple ask: “Will you share this too?”
That’s how solidarity becomes a meme. Not clever. Contagious.
2. Activate the Networks That Care About Freedom
Send the boycott to Burma solidarity groups, activist circles, and human-rights organizations—locally and globally.
Ask them to share it with their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions.
If groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or Fortify Rights amplify it, the impact multiplies instantly.
One message. One refusal. Worldwide.
3. Create Your Own Graphic — Make It Yours
This campaign doesn’t belong to one image.
Design your own graphic. Use AI. Use a designer. Use a Sharpie if you have to.
Post it as your header. Your pinned post. Your digital flag.
Say it plainly: Do not travel to a prison state.
This is how we stand with the more than 22,000 political prisoners enduring isolation, torture, and erasure—right now.
4. Record a 10–15 Second Video Declaration
Look into the camera. Speak from the gut.
“Don’t travel to a prison state.”
“Boycott travel to Myanmar.”
Post it everywhere. Ask others to do the same.
Repetition isn’t noise. It’s pressure.
5. Confront the Travel Industry — Directly
Send the boycott to travel agents worldwide. Ask them to stop selling tickets to Myanmar.
Tourism dollars fuel torture, prisons, and airstrikes. There’s no neutral position here.
Flood agencies in Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Paris, New York—everywhere.
Invite them to choose integrity over profit.
Sacrifice revenue. Stand with human life.
6. Pressure Governments and Institutions
Send the campaign—graphics, videos, statements—in your own language to:
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- Members of parliament
- Presidents and prime ministers
- Ambassadors and embassies
- The United Nations and the European Union
Demand an end to visas, promotion, and normalization of a military prison state. Silence is consent.
7. Call In Artists and Influencers
Ask people with platforms to use them.
Musicians. Actors. Writers. Athletes. Cultural leaders.
A single sentence at a concert can reach 100,000 people.
Imagine Taylor Swift naming the boycott.
Imagine Bono standing for nonviolence in action.
This isn’t about past opinions. It’s about present courage.
8. Engage the Media — Everywhere
Contact podcast hosts, TV and radio producers, journalists, magazines, college newspapers, and universities worldwide.
Send them your graphics. Your videos. A short press note.
Remind them who is imprisoned: Aung San Suu Kyi, other elected leaders, and more than 22,000 political hostages.
Give the media a chance to do its job: let freedom breathe.
9. Invent Your Own Act of Refusal
This one is personal.
Write a poem. Organize a teach-in. Translate the campaign into your language. Create street art. Start a classroom discussion.
Kids. Teenagers. Elders. Every nationality. Every culture.
There is no such thing as “too small” when millions are acting.
10. Don’t Let Up
The sham elections are over.
The prisoners are still locked away.
The regime lies openly, blocks all access, and demands the world move on.
We refuse.
Starve the dictatorship of dollars. Deprive it of oxygen.
Let the boycott travel faster than their propaganda.
From our hearts to yours—
in shared refusal, shared courage, shared humanity.
Alan Clements & Fergus Harlow
Use Your Freedom Global Campaign
FINAL ADDITION — SHARE THE RECORD
And please share the work of the Use Your Freedom campaign at UseYourFreedom.org—a living archive of articles, investigations, and analysis documenting Myanmar’s ongoing struggle for freedom.
From the site, you can also freely download the book The Voice of Hope: Aung San Suu Kyi from Prison — and a Letter to a Dictator—a primary-source record of conscience written under repression and smuggled beyond censorship.
This campaign is not about specialists or saviors.
It is about participation.
As Aung San Suu Kyi reminds us:
“We are all activists at heart.
No one is outside of society.
It’s about our freedom. That means everybody.
We must see that no one is separate from this freedom.
No one is an island in this world.”
— The Voice of Hope
