working to dismantle the myanmar military cartel

The illegal Myanmar junta is set to be invited to an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) workshop on preventing and countering the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, also known as drones) for "terrorist and illicit purposes". This presentst a foreseeable and significant risk of unintended technology transfer.

In the months following the military’s February 1, 2021 illegal coup attempt, a junta-linked network sought to sell 800kg of gold through Thailand, Laos and Hong Kong, coordinated by Min Aung Hlaing's daughter, Khin Thiri Thet Mon.

The Canadian-linked Belpearl network is using a Thai intermediary company to supply pearl nuclei from Hong Kong and Japan to its Myanmar pearl farm, sustaining a business that helps finance the junta’s ongoing campaign of terror against the people.

Since the Myanmar military’s illegal coup attempt, Myanmar crony Ko Ko Latt has expanded his business, providing financial and political support to a brutal junta. He has done this while running a network of businesses in the USA, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore and the UAE, while transacting with entities sanctioned in some of the very countries he operates in.

The Sky Aviator arms broker network appears to be using a nominee structure to acquire a significant stake in Advanced Connection Corporation Public Company Limited (ACC), a Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) listed company, raising serious money laundering concerns.

As the illegal Myanmar military junta was intensifying its campaign of terror against the people in 2022, junta head Min Aung Hlaing’s son and daughter-in-law purchased a luxury property in Bangkok for THB 98 million (almost US$3 million), Justice For Myanmar can reveal.

A new joint policy brief by The Sentry and Justice For Myanmar exposes how the Myanmar military junta is attempting to evade international sanctions and manufacture false legitimacy by rebranding its executive, legislative and judicial structure and engaging lobbyists in the United States to further the effort.

The 'Silk Road of Surveillance' report exposes the significant collaboration between the illegal Myanmar military junta and China's Geedge Networks in implementing a commercial version of China’s "Great Firewall", giving the junta unprecedented capabilities to track down, arrest, torture and kill civilians.

In the more than four years since the Myanmar military launched an illegal coup attempt, the Belarus regime has deepened its ties with the junta, providing arms, equipment and training that builds the technical capacity of the military and its domestic arms industry.

Companies across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region have continued business with the Myanmar military junta, providing a major source of revenue, as well as communications technology and aviation fuel.

An examination of developments since Thailand's 2023 power cuts to cyber scam compounds shows that the compounds actually expanded. Thailand's current crackdown on cyber scams in Myawaddy Township cannot succeed without targeting the root causes and dismantling the Myanmar military.

Singapore-listed company Interra Resources Limited has helped supply the junta with over two million barrels of oil, fuelling its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The oil is worth over $150 million.