Irrawaddy-Mar 1
The Indian government has been accused of collaboration in Myanmar junta’s atrocities against its people because of its exports of artillery barrels to the regime. On Wednesday, the campaign and rights group Justice for Myanmar (JFM) reported that Indian state-owned Yantra India Limited shipped multiple 122mm barrels to Myanmar’s junta in October 2022. Yantra India is an official public sector company that runs operations under the Department of Defence Production at the Indian defense ministry. The shipment probably breached international law, the rights group said. Since the coup in February 2021, the regime has used airstrikes, shelling and arson attacks on residential areas killing large numbers of civilians while it is struggling to crush a growing resistance movement. The artillery barrels were sent to a company owned by a regime arms broker, Kyaw Kyaw Htun, who has been investigated for importing fuses from the Indian company Sandeep Metalcraft to be used by the junta for the detonation of ammunition, JFM said. It added that the junta’s arms broker and his network have not been sanctioned yet. The exporting of 122mm barrels to Myanmar by Yantra India follows several other known exports of weapons and weapons components from Indian companies after the 2021 coup. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/jfm-accuses-india-of-complicity-in-myanmar-junta-war-crimes.html
