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<h1 class="reader-title">UN Report Slams Israel for Selling Arms
to Myanmar Army despite Muslim Rohingya 'Genocide'</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time"><span
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href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/2019/08/">August
5, 2019</a></span></div>
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<p><span>A United Nations fact-finding mission called on
Monday for an <span>embargo on arms sales</span> to
Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with
connections to the military after finding they are
funding human rights abuses.</span></p>
<p><span>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”.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Apartheid Arms: Why Israel Sells
Military Equipment to <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HumanRights?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HumanRights</a>
Violators: Palestine Chronicle <a
href="https://t.co/IAwm5e5WTm">https://t.co/IAwm5e5WTm</a>
| More w/ EcoSearch: <a
href="https://t.co/I6zZOmEVJA">https://t.co/I6zZOmEVJA</a></p>
<p>— EcoInternet (@EcoInternetDrGB) <a
href="https://twitter.com/EcoInternetDrGB/status/1131076227052101633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
22, 2019</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>“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.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel was identified as one of seven countries
that had <span>traded arms with Myanmar</span> since
2017.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"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" <a href="https://t.co/tDWEm5waDX">https://t.co/tDWEm5waDX</a></p>
<p>— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a
href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1034498324081111040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August
28, 2018</a></p>
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<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>The private Israeli firm, TAR Ideal Concepts, was
also named in the report.</span></p>
<p>The report said:</p>
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<p><span>“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.” </span></p>
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<p><span>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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Israel sold advanced weapons to
Myanmar during anti-Rohingya ethnic cleansing campaign
<a href="https://t.co/yyjMuzkat0">https://t.co/yyjMuzkat0</a></p>
<p>— rashid dar | راشد ڈار (@rashiddar) <a
href="https://twitter.com/rashiddar/status/1002183954630356992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
31, 2018</a></p>
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<p><span>Watchdog Global Witness called the report a
rallying cry.</span></p>
<p><span>Campaign leader Paul Donowitz said:</span></p>
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<p><span>“Global governments and companies who find
themselves connected to a military company can
therefore no longer plead ignorance.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>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”.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Arming dictators, equipping
pariahs<br>
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 <a href="https://t.co/9xXOt8Zyi8">https://t.co/9xXOt8Zyi8</a></p>
<p>— JewishVoiceForLabour (@JVoiceLabour) <a
href="https://twitter.com/JVoiceLabour/status/1129450431648866304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
17, 2019</a></p>
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<p><span>Earlier this year Amnesty International denounced
the Israeli government for its <span>arms sales</span> to
countries accused of severe human rights violations,
including Myanmar.</span></p>
<p>The Amnesty report said:</p>
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<p><span>“Israeli companies continue to export weapons
to countries that systematically violate human
rights.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Amnesty report finds israel is
readily selling weapons to 8 countries systematically
violating human rights and committing grave war crimes
<a href="https://t.co/f6p9iXDObk">https://t.co/f6p9iXDObk</a></p>
<p>— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) <a
href="https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1130893769618989056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
21, 2019</a></p>
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<p>It added:</p>
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<p><span>“Often these weapons reach their destination
after a series of transactions, thereby skirting
international monitoring and the rules of Israel
itself.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><em>(Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, PC, Social Media)</em></p>
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