“Every day there are more airstrikes, artillery strikes or arrests, the EU needs a sense of urgency. “The EU has the right policy, to cut off sources of revenue and arms to the Burmese military, but they are not implementing it fast enough,” Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK said in a statement. In total, 84 individuals and 11 entities in Myanmar now fall under the EU sanctions, which include visa bans and the freezing of assets in the European Union. It was the EU’s first new package of measures since February. The latest package of measures marked the date of the last general election in Myanmar when Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party were returned to power in a landslide. The new EU sanctions apply to members of the military, members of the State Administrative Council (SAC) – the body set up by the military to run the country – as well as the judiciary and prisons service.Īlso blacklisted were Tay Za and Aung Myo Myint, who have traded arms for the Myanmar military, and Naing Htut Aung, who has funded the military in relation to the crackdown on the Rohingya and also brokered weapons. More than 2,400 people have been killed in the past two years, according to monitoring group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, while the UN children’s agency estimates that one million people have been displaced.
The military has faced widespread armed resistance to its rule and has responded with brutal force. Myanmar was plunged into crisis when the armed forces, under Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in February 2021. “Kyaw Min Oo profits from the violence and suffering the military has inflicted on the people of Burma since the military coup,” said Brian Nelson, the Treasury undersecretary for financial intelligence. Sky Aviator has facilitated arms deals on behalf of the Myanmar military, including the importation of aircraft parts, it added. Kyaw Min Oo has close ties to the Myanmar military and has acted as the middleman to arrange visits to Myanmar by high-ranking foreign military officers, a US Treasury Department statement said. The US blacklisted an arms dealer, Kyaw Min Oo, and his Sky Aviator Company. The EU sanctions apply to 19 more individuals and entities, including a minister and chief justice, and are a result of “the continuing escalation of violence and grave human rights violations following the military takeover two years ago”, the European Council said on Tuesday. The United States and European Union have announced new sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime aimed at officials, companies and arms dealers, as campaigners urge quicker implementation of the measures given the deepening crisis in the country.
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