Burma Campaign UK has released an updated list of products, brands, and services owned or controlled by the Myanmar junta’s military or its business conglomerates, reports Mizzima. An additional 16 new products and businesses have been added to the updated Boycott List.
Minn Tent Bo, Advocacy Officer at Burma Campaign UK, said: “Every time a military-owned product is bought, money goes towards the Burmese military. The military still carries out airstrikes every day, including on schools and hospitals, arresting people at will, torturing them and committing other serious human rights abuses. We ask governments, embassies, international organisations and international non-governmental organisations to check the Boycott List and make sure they are not unknowingly supporting the military.”
Read Myanmar Financial Services Monitor report (behind paywall)