Myanmar’s ruling military junta has imported at least $1 billion in weapons and military-related equipment since its bloody coup, according to a new United Nations report which said much of the ...

Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, published a new report on Wednesday that detailed transfers of arms and raw materials and identified “254 unique suppliers” to the Myanmar ...

Myanmar’s military has imported at least $1 billion in arms and other material since it staged a coup in February 2021, a UN expert said on Wednesday in a new report that calls out Russia and ...

Moscow is by far Myanmar's largest arms dealer, conducting more than $400 million in transfers from 28 Russian entities, including from state-owned ones, since the February 2021 coup.

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The imports have easily circumvented international sanctions prohibiting arms trade with Myanmar, according to Andrews. His report singled out an attack on an opposition-controlled village that ...

The opposition in Myanmar has called on China to stop providing arms to the ruling military junta, saying the regime is using them to “kill their own people and civilians”.

Six FTC-2000G fighter jets from China arrived in Myanmar in August, coinciding with the military junta's intensifying airstrikes against armed rebels of various ethnic groups. This followed high ...

Humans Rights Watch (HRW) urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to slap a total arms embargo on Myanmar's ruling generals because of "continuing massive violations of human rights".

MFA said: “Singapore’s policy is to prohibit the transfer of arms to Myanmar and to not authorise the transfer to Myanmar of dual-use items, which have been assessed to have potential military ...

Salc argued that South Africa exported arms to Myanmar between 2017 and 2021, “despite having knowledge of the grave human rights violations, potential violations of the Genocide Convention and ...