ASEAN Firms Accused of Funding Myanmar Junta's War Crimes

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A damning new report has accused major Southeast Asian companies of enabling Myanmar’s military regime to carry out war crimes, including deadly airstrikes and artillery attacks on civilians.

 

Justice For Myanmar (JFM), a prominent rights watchdog, has revealed that state-linked firms from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia continue to supply the junta with vital funds, fuel, and technology—four years after a military coup toppled the country’s elected government.

 

The report claims that this “network of corporate complicity” has not only defied Western sanctions but has also made a mockery of ASEAN’s own Five-Point Consensus for peace, which the regime has ignored.

 

At the heart of the regime’s revenue, JFM says, is Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), which remains untouched by ASEAN sanctions. Thai energy giant PTTEP and Singapore’s Interra Resources are named among firms generating millions for the junta via joint gas and oil ventures. The resulting funds, JFM alleges, are helping finance atrocities against Myanmar’s people.

 

Fuel imports are another key enabler. Singapore’s Shoon Group and Vietnam’s Hai Linh are accused of continuing aviation fuel shipments—fuel that powers the junta’s escalating air attacks on resistance-held villages.

 

Timber exports, real estate development, and military-linked banking operations also feed the regime’s coffers. Singapore’s Yoma Group, Malaysia’s MAMEE-Double Decker, and Vietnam’s Truong Hai Group are among those identified as leasing military-owned land, directly enriching junta-controlled enterprises.

 

Vietnamese telecom giant Viettel, operating through Mytel, has allegedly helped the regime expand its surveillance capabilities, aided by Malaysian and Thai tech partners. Meanwhile, leading banks across ASEAN are accused of facilitating financial transactions for arms and fuel purchases, despite public denials of wrongdoing.

 

JFM warns that ASEAN’s inaction is fuelling Myanmar’s deepening humanitarian crisis. “Without its corporate enablers, the junta would be choked of funds, arms, technology and aviation fuel,” the report states.

 

The group is urging ASEAN governments to take decisive action against complicit firms. As the bloc’s peace efforts flounder, JFM says business interests must no longer take precedence over human lives.

 

-2025-05-27

[spidermike007]

A pox on the house of any company and it's executives, that chooses to support that genocidal regime, on any level.

[ericbj]

The N.U.G. - if they do not already do it - should keep a register of companies and individuals aiding and abetting human rights atrocities in Burma.  So that the culprits can be excluded from benefitting from the country's development once the leaden military yoke is thrown off.

[Caldera]

That doesn't surprise me at all.