Broker for Israeli Arms to Myanmar Arrested in Thailand for Drug Dealing, Money Laundering

HAARETZ
Oded Yaron
Oct 27, 2022

Documents reveal that a corporation implicated in corruption, served as a middleman between IAI, Elbit, and Israel Shipyards and Myanmar's brutal junta, despite international sanctions over the Rohingya genocide.

A Myanmar military officer at an Israeli arms fair in 2019Moti Milrod

A corporation in Myanmar implicated in crime and corruption – whose top executives were arrested in Thailand on drug and money laundering charges – served as a middleman between Israeli arms exporters and the brutal military junta ruling the country, according to documents unveiled by the Justice for Myanmar organization. The corporation's senior executives maintain business and family ties with senior junta and Myanmar military figures. Britain imposed sanctions on the corporation, Star Sapphire Trading, for its ties to the Myanmar army during the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.

The documents leaked to the organization are the subject of a letter sent by Israeli attorney Eitay Mack to Attorney Genera

Not a Single Muslim Country Has Supported the US, Israel Too Treads a Delicate Line

T H E
C I T I Z E N
M.K.BHADRAKUMAR |
2 MARCH, 2022

The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the likes of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era.

The shocking part is that it has become a no-holds barred struggle that is being fought tooth and claw, as hidden racial and religious prejudices lying just below the surface have welled to the surface in the Western world.

Rights group says Israel may still be arming Myanmar; NGOs call for arms embargo

THE TIMES OF ISREAL

EDITH M. LEDERER
8 May 2021,

Israel’s police training and vehicle supplies ended in 2017, but deliveries of surveillance equipment may be ongoing amid coup, Amnesty International official says

Myanmarese residents in Israel protest agaisnt the military coup wich took place in Myanmar, outside The Chinese Embassy in Tel Aviv on February 15, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 200 global organizations urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar, saying the time for statements has passed and immediate action is needed to help protect peaceful protesters against military rule and other opponents of the junta.

A statement by the non-governmental organizations said the military “has demonstrated a callous disregard for human life” since their February 1 coup, killing at least 769 people including 51 children as young as six years old and detaining several thousand activists, journalists, civil servants, and politicians. Hundreds of others have disappeared, it said.

Israel to Bar Myanmar Officials From Arms Expos

HAARETZ
Noa Landau 
Jul 17, 2019 6:26 AM

Decision to stop issuing visas for this purpose comes after Haaretz documented officers attending Tel Aviv expo, despite international embargo over serious human rights violations 

A representative of Myanmar's military at the Israel Defense and Homeland Security Expo in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2019.\ Moti Milrod 

• Israel denies arming Myanmar. But its officials are still visiting a Tel Aviv arms expo

• Israeli educators and academics demand Netanyahu cancel agreement with Myanmar

• Arming dictators, equipping pariahs: Alarming picture of Israel's arms sales

The Israeli government will bar military representatives from Myanmar from attending arms expositions held in Israel as long as Myanmar remains under an international arms embargo over its human rights violations, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has decided.

Israeli tech used to imprison journalists in Myanmar — report

THE TIMES OF ISREAL
By TOI staff  
5 May 2019,

Company that breaches cellphones says it stopped service to country’s military rulers, but not before two Reuters reporters jailed.

Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, left, and Wa Lone, are handcuffed as they are escorted by police out of the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar after being sentenced to seven years in prison. (AP /Thein Zaw)

The military-backed government of Myanmar used Israeli technology to gather evidence that led to the jailing of two Reuters journalists, according to report on Sunday.
Police in Myanmar used Petah Tikva-based Cellebrite’s products to breach the journalists’ mobile phones, leading to the imprisonment of Pulitzer Prize-winners Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were sentenced to seven years in prison for violating state secrecy laws, the Washington Post reported.