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.

54 companies in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have maintained business links to the Myanmar military junta and companies it controls following the military’s illegal coup attempt.

Justice For Myanmar has today launched the Dirty Over 30 ASEAN Edition to expose tycoons across Southeast Asia who have enabled the Myanmar military junta’s brutal terror campaign.

Even as Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim calls for peace in Myanmar and urges a post-earthquake ceasefire, Malaysia – current Chair of ASEAN – has welcomed the Myanmar military into ASEAN’s counter-terrorism initiatives, deepening the bloc’s complicity in war crimes and undermining its own stated commitments.

Despite Myanmar civil society’s repeated calls for ASEAN to end all engagements with the military junta, ASEAN and key members have continued to aid and abet the military’s terror campaign, betraying the people of Myanmar.

Justice For Myanmar welcomes the launch of Malaysian police and anti-corruption commission investigations into the involvement of former deputy minister Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim and her husband, Datuk Abdul Shakor bin Abu Bakar, in a cyber scam hub in Karen State.

The Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), rebranded as the Karen National Army (KNA), has built a transnational network of businesses that enriches the militia’s ruling family and their associates, and causes widespread suffering.

Justice For Myanmar calls on other ASEAN members to follow Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in refusing to attend the upcoming ASEAN Air Chiefs’ Conference (AACC), heeding the outcry from Myanmar and international civil society.