WEST BANK (Dispatches) – An arm manufacturer in the Israeli-occupied territories exported equipment to Myanmar despite a U.S. and European Union embargo imposed over the country’s genocide against the Rohingya Muslim people, according to a new report.
A report published by the rights group Justice for Myanmar says the shipments were made in 2019. The report includes a letter by Zionist attorney Eitay Mack that was sent to the regime’s attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara.
According to the report, in July 2019 the Zionist arms producer CAA Industries shipped equipment to manufacture arms to a supplier of the Myanmar military. The two-ton shipment included molds for injecting plastic polymers which could be used to manufacture rifle parts like grips and handles.
Middle East Eye reached out to CAA Industries for comment on this report but they did not respond by the time of publication
“CAA Industries has a responsibility to respect international human rights and humanitarian law. Under international human rights standards on business and human rights, CAA Industries has a responsibility to conduct due diligence and prevent or mitigate and remedy any negative human rights impacts linked to the end-use of their products and services,” Justice for Myanmar said in a statement.
“Justice for Myanmar calls for CAA Industries to immediately halt any collaboration, including shipments of accessories for specialized machinery and injection moulds, to Myanmar.”
The rights group published images of rifles manufactured by the Myanmar military’s arms industries, including assault rifles, sniper rifles, and light machine guns, and have identified grips and stocks with the identical design that CAA sells.
Human rights groups and Myanmarese officials reported in 2017 that the Zionist regime continued to sell Myanmar weapons and arms as thousands of Rohingya refugees fled the military’s brutal crackdown in the Rakhine state.
The United Nations has described the Rohingya people as the most persecuted minority in the world.
In 2017, a bloody campaign in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sent some 740,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into neighboring Bangladesh, carrying accounts of rape, mass killings and arson.
The Rohingya are still denied citizenship and freedom of movement in Myanmar, with reports indicating tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
The Rohingya case is now the subject of separate proceedings before the International Criminal Court and for “acts of genocide” before the International Court of Justice.