Burma Campaign UK Lipman, Jay Kay, Joanna Lumley, Esther Rantzen, Kabir Bedi, Sir Ian McKellen and Gillian Anderson. Burma Campaign UK Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) founded in 1991 is a London-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to achieve the restoration of human rights and democracy in Burma (also known as Myanmar). BCUK campaigns on behalf of the Burmese pro-democracy movement and is the largest campaigning organisation for Burma in Europe. The "Financial Times" has called it "a leading human rights pressure group". It does this by: It has two directors, Anna Roberts and Mark Farmaner. Patrons include Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Maureen
HMS Gurkha (F20) stopped by a single bomb hit. The crew were rescued by the cruiser "Aurora" and the destroyer "Mashona", with "Gurkha" sinking with the loss of 16 of her crew. HMS Gurkha (F20) HMS "Gurkha" was a destroyer that saw active service in the Norway Campaign in 1940, where she was sunk. On 10 March 1936, two Tribal-class destroyers were ordered from Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, "Gurkha" (originally "Ghurka") and . Both ships were laid down at Fairfield's Govan, Glasgow shipyard on 6 July 1936, and "Gurkha" was launched on 7 July 1937. Like many of the Tribals, completion of