Mizzima-May 27
On 24 May, Justice for Myanmar released a report naming 54 companies in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which continue to maintain links with Myanmar’s junta. 54 companies in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have maintained business links to the Myanmar military junta and companies it controls following the military’s illegal coup attempt on February 1, 2021, according to a Justice for Myanmar report published today. These businesses, some of which have been exposed for the first time, have enabled the junta’s ongoing campaign of terror against the people by providing revenue through the junta-controlled oil and gas and timber sectors, land lease and tax payments, and the supply of aviation fuel and communications and surveillance technology. Over four years after ASEAN formulated the Five-Point Consensus peace plan, in which Myanmar junta head Min Aung Hlaing agreed to an immediate cessation of violence, the junta has only ramped up its brutal attacks on civilians with the complicity of companies in ASEAN member states, notably Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and their governments. The significant involvement of ASEAN-based businesses and member governments in providing funds and aviation fuel to the military junta has been enabled by the bloc’s failure to press for a ban on aviation fuel and arms exports and action to stop revenue flows to the junta.
As an intergovernmental organization, ASEAN’s claims of taking the lead to resolve the crisis, while hypocritically offering false legitimacy to the military junta and providing it with military training, has worsened the situation in Myanmar and impeded international action. Justice For Myanmar calls on ASEAN member governments to immediately cut the junta’s access to funds, arms, equipment, technology, and aviation fuel. ASEAN must move beyond the failed Five-Point Consensus to support a Myanmar people-led solution, as civil society has demanded. Read more at: https://eng.mizzima.com/2025/05/27/22779
