Independent experts find western-supplied materials are still finding their way into military’s hands
The military forcibly took control ofin February 2021. It has since killed more than 2,730 people and arrested more than 17,200 in an attempt to eradicate resistance. Reports of airstrikes, villages being burned down and children being tortured have become synonymous with the junta, which faces a genocide investigation by the international court of justice.
“It’s more or less a military-owned enterprise,” said Yanghee Lee, a former UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar and founder of the SAC-M, which is a group of independent experts, including former UN officials, who came together after the coup to advocate on behalf of the democratic movement in the country.
The SAC-M called on the companies, whether directly or indirectly doing business with the military and associated entities, to stop. Lee said that if these companies were not doing business directly with the DDI, they should investigate how their products had inadvertently ended up being used for the manufacturing of arms by the military in Myanmar.Countries also have a role in ensuring their companies are not inadvertently facilitating human rights violations, according to the report. “Failing to do so makes them complicit in the Myanmar military’s barbaric crimes,” Lee said.“The hypocrisy here is mammoth,” McCarthy said.
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