http://www.palestinechronicle.com/un-report-slams-israel-for-selling-arms-to-myanmar-army-despite-muslim-rohingya-genocide/
UN Report Slams Israel for Selling Arms to Myanmar Army despite Muslim
Rohingya 'Genocide'
August 5, 2019 <http://www.palestinechronicle.com/2019/08/>
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A United Nations fact-finding mission called on Monday for an embargo on
arms sales to Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with
connections to the military after finding they are funding human rights
abuses.
UN investigators detailed how businesses run by Myanmar’s army, also
known as the Tatmadaw, are engaged in such violations and provide
financial support for military operations such as efforts to force
Muslim Rohingya out of Rakhine state in what has been branded a “genocide”.
Apartheid Arms: Why Israel Sells Military Equipment to #HumanRights
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“The revenue that these military businesses generate strengthens the
Tatmadaw’s autonomy from elected civilian oversight and provides
financial support for the Tatmadaw’s operations with their wide array of
international human rights and humanitarian law abuses,” Marzuki
Darusman, the Indonesian human rights lawyer who chairs the fact-finding
mission, said in a statement.
Israel was identified as one of seven countries that had traded arms
with Myanmar since 2017.
"Investigations by human rights groups found that Israel sold more
than 100 tanks, as well as light weapons and patrol boats, which
have been an instrumental tool used by Myanmar to attack Rohingya
fishermen" https://t.co/tDWEm5waDX
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 28, 2018
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State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries agreed to provide “four
Super-Dvora Mk III fast attack craft to the Myanmar Navy”, the report
said, with two delivered in April 2017.
The private Israeli firm, TAR Ideal Concepts, was also named in the report.
The report said:
“Israel in particular allowed the transfer of arms covered by the
ATT [Arms Trade Treaty] at a time when it had knowledge, or ought to
have had knowledge, that they would be used in the commission of
serious crimes under international law.”
The report urged the UN and member governments to immediately impose
targeted sanctions against companies run by the military and suggested
carrying out business with firms unaffiliated with the military instead.
Israel sold advanced weapons to Myanmar during anti-Rohingya ethnic
cleansing campaign https://t.co/yyjMuzkat0
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Watchdog Global Witness called the report a rallying cry.
Campaign leader Paul Donowitz said:
“Global governments and companies who find themselves connected to a
military company can therefore no longer plead ignorance.”
The UN released a 444-page report in 2018 that said the Myanmar
military’s persecution of the stateless Rohingya Muslims warranted the
charges of “genocide”.
Arming dictators, equipping pariahs
Extensive Amnesty report cites Israeli sales to 8 countries who
violate human rights, including South Sudan, Myanmar, Mexico and the
UAE Amnesty calls on Israel to adopt oversight model adopted by many
Western countries https://t.co/9xXOt8Zyi8
— JewishVoiceForLabour (@JVoiceLabour) May 17, 2019
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Earlier this year Amnesty International denounced the Israeli government
for its arms sales to countries accused of severe human rights
violations, including Myanmar.
The Amnesty report said:
“Israeli companies continue to export weapons to countries that
systematically violate human rights.”
Amnesty report finds israel is readily selling weapons to 8
countries systematically violating human rights and committing grave
war crimes https://t.co/f6p9iXDObk
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) May 21, 2019
<https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1130893769618989056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
It added:
“Often these weapons reach their destination after a series of
transactions, thereby skirting international monitoring and the
rules of Israel itself.”
Israel has long been accused of selling weapons to human rights
violators despite international arms embargos, including to South Africa
during Apartheid, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and to South Sudan
during the brutal civil war.
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