Irrawaddy/AFP-Nov 9
The US and EU on Tuesday extended their sanctions on Myanmar’s junta, targeting a local aviation company, its owner, and 19 other individuals and entities including a minister and a chief justice. The US State Department said on Tuesday that the Treasury Department is targeting for sanctions Sky Aviator Company Limited and its owner and director, Kyaw Min Oo, pursuant to Executive Order 14014, for operating in the defense sector, saying the US is taking additional actions against those who enable the regime’s violence, particularly its repeated air assaults and killing of civilians in Myanmar. Sky Aviator is a key supplier of military aircraft parts to the regime’s military. Since the February 2021 coup, the company has received multiple arms shipments from sanctioned entities. The State Department said Kyaw Min Oo has also facilitated foreign military officers’ visits to Myanmar as well as the import of arms and other military equipment and provided assault helicopter upgrades.
The EU measures against 19 other individuals and entities including a minister and a chief justice were announced by the European Council because of “the continuing escalation of violence and grave human rights violations following the military takeover two years ago”. It was the fifth package of EU sanctions on the Southeast Asian country, which has been under military rule since 2021, when the military staged a coup against a civilian government led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now in prison on corruption charges judged spurious by Europe. Myanmar has been in turmoil under the junta, which faces widespread armed resistance and has responded with a brutal crackdown. 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. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/the-world-myanmar/us-eu-extend-myanmar-sanctions-target-aviation-company-minister-judge.html
