Link btw intn'l businesses & #Myanmar’s military exposed by @amnesty
Companies working with Myanmar-based company, MEHL, must cut ties
They incld: INNO (property) Pan-Pacific (clothes), POSCO (steel), RMH (tobacco) Wanbao (mining) & @Kirin_Brewery (beer)
Yesterday, @amnesty revealed that many intn'l companies are profiting from MEHL a company run by, & solely in the interests of, #Myanmar's generals
Today, @FT reports @Kirin_Brewery, that also owns #SanMiguel beer, will "review its relationship with MEHL"
Kirin is a Japanese brewer that part owns San Miguel 🍺
Their subsidiary made donations at the height of violence in #Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Billions in dividends from ventures with MEHL were funnelled to army units implicated in the Rohingya atrocities
Three years after the Myanmar military’s targeted campaign of violence began, Rohingya are still being killed & maimed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, @amnesty revealed last month.
General Min Aung Hlaing commands the Myanmar army & is a shareholder in MEHL.
In the 7+ years that I’ve worked for @amnesty, we’ve only “named-and-shamed” individual military leaders on two occasions.
The first time, it was commanders in Nigeria responsible mass killings in the north west.
The second time was Gen Min Aung Hlaing.
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