A damning new report has accused thirteen telecom firms in Myanmar of enabling military surveillance over tens of millions of users, sparking calls for sanctions and international investigations.

 

Published on 9 September by advocacy group Justice For Myanmar, the “Silk Road of Surveillance” report draws on a leaked dataset detailing how China’s Geedge Networks supplied the junta with powerful monitoring tools. These include the Tiangou Secure Gateway (TSG), deployed across 26 data centres and centrally managed by the regime’s National Cyber Security Center.

 

The report alleges Geedge provided not only hardware and software, but also on-site engineers and long-term support—facilitating real-time tracking of internet traffic and mobile geolocation. These capabilities, it claims, have been used to identify, detain, and torture journalists, activists, and members of the resistance. Justice For Myanmar argues this amounts to complicity in crimes against humanity and urges targeted sanctions against the firm and its executives.

 

Thirteen telecom providers are named as hosts of Geedge’s infrastructure, including major players such as Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Mytel, ATOM (formerly Telenor Myanmar), and Ooredoo Myanmar (now Nine Communications). Others include Frontiir, Campana Mythic, StreamNet, Golden TMH, IM-Net, MBT, MTN, GlobalNet, and China Unicom.

 

The report also flags international investors and partners linked to these firms, calling for scrutiny of their involvement. Most companies named have yet to respond publicly.

 

With Myanmar’s digital landscape increasingly weaponised by the junta, the revelations raise urgent questions about corporate accountability and the global supply chains behind authoritarian surveillance.

 

 

-2025-10-19

On 10/19/2025 at 5:05 AM, geovalin said:

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