Wärtsilä claims to have severed its relationship with Myanmar firm MCM and its ex-director, known arms broker Aung Hlaing Oo, dismissing leaked documents suggesting otherwise as a ‘forgery’
The report identifies entities and countries sending more than $1 billion worth of weapons, parts and materials to Myanmar, and explains why sanctions have so far failed to prevent this
The Myanmar regime has yet to say anything about Rohingya IDPs, hundreds of whom are feared dead in the wake of Cyclone Mocha
Win Mya Mya was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2022 on an incitement charge, but was not included in the Myanmar junta’s amnesty earlier this month
The regime-operated conglomerate took full control of the 6,000-acre gold-mining project area, ordering all previously hired personnel and affiliate companies to leave by the end of February