ST Kinetics
About the company
ST Kinetics
ST Kinetics is a Singaporean engineering company which manufactures arms. Its predecessor company, Charted Industries of Singapore, sold a factory to the Burmese military for the production of arms, including licensing production of a version of its STK 50mg gun, believed to be produced by the directorate of defence industries at the MA 16. ST Kinetics has not responded to requests for information about ongoing licensing or other support provided to the Burmese military.
Contact:
ST Engineering Hub
1 Ang Mo Kio Electronics Park Road
Singapore 567710
Singapore
Email: comms@stengg.com
Sources:
Burma Making Small Arms, The Irrawaddy, August 1988
https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=1173
STK 50MG, Military Today website. Accessed April 2022
http://www.military-today.com/firearms/stk_50mg.htm
Seeking Supplies: Developments of Small Arms Production and Industry in Myanmar, Small Arms Survey, 4th August 202
Notified 6th April 2022
Added to the Dirty List 10 May 2022
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.