{"id":51901,"date":"2023-01-16T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/western-firms-facilitating-production-of-myanmar-juntas-weapons-report-military"},"modified":"2023-01-16T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:48:51","slug":"western-firms-facilitating-production-of-myanmar-juntas-weapons-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51901","title":{"rendered":"Western firms facilitating production of Myanmar junta\u2019s weapons, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent experts find western-supplied materials are still finding their way into military\u2019s hands<\/p>\n<p>Companies in 13 countries across Europe, Asia and North America are assisting Myanmar\u2019s junta \u2013 either indirectly or directly \u2013 by supplying materials to the stated-owned entity that produces the military\u2019s weapons, a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/specialadvisorycouncil.org\/\">Special Advisory Council for Myanmar<\/a> (SAC-M) has found.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons are then being used to commit human rights atrocities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/western-firms-facilitating-production-of-myanmar-juntas-weapons-report-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent experts find western-supplied materials are still finding their way into military\u2019s handsCompanies in 13 countries across Europe, Asia and North America are assisting Myanmar\u2019s junta \u2013 either indirectly or directly \u2013 by supplying materials &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901\/revisions\/51902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}