The Turkish Anadolu Agency reports that leading global money transfer service Western Union has stopped using a military-owned bank as one of its agents in Burma.
Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, said that Western Union is the biggest company so far to end a business relationship with a military-owned company.
“This move will put more pressure on other companies to also stop doing business with the military,” he told Anadolu Agency. “Companies doing business with the military are helping to pay for genocide of the Rohingya and other human rights violations.”