The list by the advocacy group
spoofs Forbes “30 Under 30” list.
JFM said those it is list have two things in common: “All of
them got rich supporting unthinkable brutality, mass-murder and war crimes in
Myanmar, and all of them are old enough to know better.”
The list aims to increase pressure on Singapore—the third-largest
supplier of arms and related-equipment to the Myanmar military—and other ASEAN
member nations to block the flow of funds and weapons to the junta.
ASEAN leaders are gathering this week in Indonesia for the 2023
ASEAN Summit.
Topping the list is notorious
Myanmar arms broker Tay Za. The Singapore resident is the founder and
chairperson of Htoo Group of Companies, which has deep links to Myanmar’s
current and former military regimes.
“These days, Tay Za spends much
of his time at his lavish three-story villa on Sentosa Island in Singapore,
where he operates at least 17 businesses that support the Myanmar military as
it continues to inflict mass suffering on the people of Myanmar,” JFM notes.
Naing Htut Aung,
founder and managing director of International Gateways, a key arms trader
supplying the air force and navy and Aung Hlaing Oo of Myanmar Chemical and
Machinery Group who serves as an arms dealer helping Myanmar’s military procure
the machinery, equipment and technology needed to manufacture sophisticated
weapons are also included in the list.
Five companies in the
International Gateways Group network remain registered in Singapore, JFM said.
“How long will the Singaporean
government let Naing Htut Aung support the illegitimate Myanmar military junta
from within its borders?” it asked.
While Aung Hlaing Oo is
sanctioned by several countries, the Singapore branch of his conglomerate
remains operational, JFM added.
Tun Min Latt, founder and
managing director of Star Sapphire Group of Companies, who has deep ties to the
family of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing and was arrested in Bangkok in September
last year on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, was also
included in the list. Star Sapphire Group of Companies brokered imports of
Israeli reconnaissance drones and aircraft parts for the Myanmar Air Force.
Star Sapphire Group of
Companies has a Singapore subsidiary that remains active and the group
continues working with the Myanmar military, JFM said.
Aung Moe Myint, the founder of
the Dynasty Group of Companies, which earned significant profits for the
Belarus regime—negotiating deals for arms the Myanmar military uses to
slaughter civilians—also made the list.
Despite being sanctioned by
other countries, Aung Moe Myint continues to operate a business in Singapore, JFM
said.
The others on the list are Khin
Phyu Win, who is also known as Kyauk Kyar Shwe (the Burmese spelling of the
Chinese name Zhao Jia Shui) founder and director of Shoon group of companies;
Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thuang, CEO of KT group; Thein Win Zaw, founder and
chairperson of Shwe Byain Phyu Group of Companies; and investor George Yin
Soon.
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JFM: Singapore government has yet to stop the movement of arms to Myanmar
“The Singaporean government has
already committed publicly to stopping the movement of arms to Myanmar, but so
far their efforts have fallen short,” JFM said.
A recent report from the UN
Special Rapporteur on the situation in Myanmar identified 138 unique suppliers in Singapore that
have done US$ 247 million worth of trade with the Myanmar military.
If Singapore’s government
stopped all arms supplies to the Myanmar military from its jurisdiction, it
would “significantly disrupt” the junta’s ability to commit war crimes, JFM
stated.
JFM urged Singapore to
introduce sanctions to stop the direct and indirect transfer of arms and
dual-use goods and technology to the Myanmar military. It also called for the
city state to block the junta’s access to Singapore’s financial system through
targeted sanctions, including on junta banks.
It also called for ongoing
investigations into Singaporean companies that have supplied arms, and dual-use
goods and technology to the Myanmar military to be expedited and made public.
More sanctions by other ASEAN countries on the Myanmar military and entities
that transact business should be enforced, JFM said.
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East Timor's President: Myanmar Junta losing war
East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta said Myanmar’s military
is not winning the war after he recognized the civilian National Unity
Government (NUG) as the official administration.
“The military in Myanmar is not winning this war. They control
only 30 percent of the country. Today, it is between the people and the
military, and the military will not win this war,” Ramos-Horta told Al Jazeera.
Following Ramos-Horta’s meeting with the NUG’s foreign minister
Daw Zin Mar Aung in his capital Dili in July, the junta last month expelled
East Timor’s top diplomat from the country for “encouraging the terrorist group
to further commit their violations in Myanmar”.
East Timor agreed in principle to join the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) last year and none of the nine other existing
members of the bloc has officially recognized the NUG.
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao
has said the nation may reconsider joining ASEAN if the
bloc does not renew efforts to end the conflict in Myanmar.
Ramos-Horta said the prime
minister was “expressing his frustration and ours, of ASEAN countries and the
wider international community in regards to the failure of the military in
Myanmar to live up to the pledges contained in the five-point consensus”, referring
to the bloc’s peace plan for Myanmar that the junta has failed to honor.
“The military in Myanmar seems
not to realize the enormous harm they are doing to their own country, their own
people and to the credibility of ASEAN,” the president told the Qatar-based
broadcaster.
He said East Timor will work
with ASEAN to assist the bloc in addressing the problems of Myanmar but from
within ASEAN, not outside it because ASEAN leaders were able to bring
prosperity and stability to the region in the past.
“I am confident that they will
eventually be able to stabilize the situation in Myanmar,” the president said.
Image : Web ScreenshotThe United Nations has voiced concern over reports that
Myanmar’s military regime is blocking urgent medical treatment for detained
democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has fallen ill.
The 78-year-old Nobel laureate
was arrested during the coup in February 2021. She has since been sentenced to
33 years in jail for a multitude of alleged offenses in a series of closed
trials held by the military regime. She denies any wrongdoing. The regime cut
six years from her sentence as part of a general amnesty in early August.
Prison sources said the 78-year-old democracy leader was unwell last week, suffering with a serious toothache and unable to eat. She was also vomiting and felt dizzy.
However, her request to see an
outside dentist was denied by prison authorities.
On Wednesday, the deputy
spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said, “We’ve made clear our concerns
about Aung San Suu Kyi,” adding that everyone in detention should have access
to healthcare.
“We have called and continue to
call for her release, as well as the release of the other leaders of the
National League for Democracy,” the deputy spokesperson said.
The detained ex-state counselor
is being held in solitary confinement at a prison in Naypyitaw, the regime’s
nerve centre.
She has been denied prison
visits as well as access to her legal team since late last year.
A total of 19,424 political
prisoners are being held in regime jails, according to the Assistance
Association for Political Prisoners (Burma).
Political detainees are
regularly denied deliveries of food, medicine and other necessities as
punishment for staging protests inside jails.
The Myanmar Junta recently imposed restrictions on outside deliveries of food and medicines to political detainees in seven jails across the country, including Insein Prison in Yangon and Obo Prison in Mandalay, according to family members and volunteers.
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Showed up! Xi Jinping inspects disaster-stricken areas in Heilongjiang
Image : Web Screenshot
The CCP’s official media reported that on the morning of September 7, Xi Jinping came to Longwangmiao Village, Laojieji Township, Shangzhi City, Harbin, which was hit by floods. The live video showed that Xi walked into the farmland, walked on the street, and visited villagers. There are not many, and there are only a handful of accompanying officials.
Hu Ping: "I think the news should be true. This is because Xi Jinping must have felt pressure from various aspects, and then he made up for it once."
Hu Ping: "Because of course he chose the place he went to. The Hebei flood was what people blamed, right? He was so close to the Hebei flood, but he didn't go to see it. Now he went to Heilongjiang to see it."
Tang Jingyuan: "The main reason is that during the floods in Hebei, especially in Zhuozhou, Xi Jinping did not go to express his condolences afterwards, and he did not even show off. This action is quite abnormal. This may also affect Xi Jinping's public opinion. He is relatively passive in nature, so he may now want to take this opportunity to inspect the flood-stricken areas in Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang to show off."
Tang Jingyuan: "This brings up a question, why did he go to Heilongjiang for inspection instead of Hebei, especially Zhuozhou, which was the hardest hit?"
Tang Jingyuan: "One of the main reasons is the floods suffered by Shangzhi City in Heilongjiang. It can be said that its most important factor is caused by natural disasters, while Zhuozhou in Hebei was flooded and the entire city was wiped out. The main reason is man-made disasters. It’s not an act of God.”
Tang Jingyuan: "It's not just a natural disaster, but the main reason for Zhuozhou's flooding is man-made disaster, and the main person responsible for this man-made disaster is himself, so if he went to Zhuozhou, Hebei Province for inspection, he is actually invisible. It means that he wants to claim this responsibility.”
Hu Ping: "For him to inspect the disaster area, he did have many specific technical difficulties, because he was very worried about his own safety. You can see that wherever he goes, he is heavily guarded along the way. , People nearby have to close their windows, roads have to be closed, how many bodyguards, how many extras are arranged on the scene.
Hu Ping: "But it is very difficult for you to make such arrangements when you are in the disaster area. You can't make arrangements for the disaster area, so this is also the reason why he is unwilling to go to the site for inspection."
Hu Ping: "Originally there was a disaster in that place, and the heads of your country's government went to inspect the scene. This is a must, and it's a very simple thing. He made it so complicated because He has too many political considerations, especially personal security considerations, and power considerations."
Tang Jingyuan: "Of course, the video and photos of the disaster site cannot reflect the real situation of the disaster area, but the focus of the party media's reports is not how serious the disaster is in the disaster area, but to highlight Xi Jinping as the supreme leader. A remote area was flooded, and he was very concerned."
Tang Jingyuan: "As for why Xi Jinping did not visit the disaster-stricken area until a month later? I think the main reason is that it is closely related to the political turmoil in his party, especially when the flood broke out. Beidaihe, they are during the Beidaihe meeting. After the Beidaihe meeting, Xi Jinping went to attend the summit of the BRICS countries, so this series is more important.”
Tang Jingyuan: "In his opinion, these meetings are related to his national strategy and his political security. After he is over, he feels that he may be able to spare time to repair his own. Image.”
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Xi Jinping has an X account? Selfie exposure
Recently, people accidentally discovered that Xi Jinping has an X account "My moment". In one of the selfies, Xi Jinping rarely smiled brightly. The post said, "Throw away your illusions and fight bravely! I am in a good mood", but it was full of gunpowder.
Tang Jingyuan: "The accounts suspected to be Xi Jinping appearing on the Twitter platform are now actively posting frequently to build momentum for Xi Jinping, etc., including the Twitter accounts suspected to be Xi Mingze on the Internet, and they are also constantly starting to surround Xi Jinping with a high profile. , is sending tweets to build public opinion against him."
Tang Jingyuan: "In fact, you will see that Xi Jinping's visit to Heilongjiang to inspect the disaster area this time has the same purpose and the same core. They are all for the purpose of reshaping a so-called people-friendly and concerned about the sufferings of the people. The image of a so-called supreme leader who is closer to the people's down-to-earth, that is to say, to save Xi Jinping's image."
Hu Ping: "Recently, he is still unlucky. Many situations are not good news for him."
Hu Ping: "Like the news released by a Japanese reporter a few days ago, about how the Beidaihe meeting was going, and how Zeng Qinghong and other veterans criticized him, that news may not be reliable, but it means that many other people, including the veterans, are right He is dissatisfied, this must be true."
Tang Jingyuan: "Since the three years of the epidemic, Xi Jinping's image among the people has been completely destroyed, and his reputation among the people is extremely bad, especially since the economy has fallen off a cliff. The impression is even worse, and his series of perverse practices have aroused great public outrage."
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Really lying down? The bizarre officialdom of the Chinese Communist Party
Xi Jinping was late for more than a month, and finally showed up to condolences to the disaster-stricken area, but the CCP officials did little. This situation truly reflects the weirdness of the CCP.
Hu Ping: "In the era of Deng Jiang and Hu, he was so-called focusing on GDP. You see if your GDP is up, then of course, you will also do a lot of face projects. If your GDP figures are bright, you may be able to be promoted, and now he doesn't look at it, so it depends on whether he is loyal in politics."
Hu Ping: "If you look at the whole disaster situation, those officials and local officials don't simply lie down and don't go to rescue the disaster. Then they are doing political disaster relief. So when you look at those officials, especially the flood in Hebei Province , From the officials of the Ministry of Water Resources to the secretary of Hebei Province to the local officials of Baoding City, they all put forward this slogan, to protect Xiongan, to protect the capital, and to make Hebei a moat for the capital."
Hu Ping: "It's not that they are negligent about the disaster relief, or that he moves quickly, but he is not concerned about the disaster relief itself, he is concerned about how to show this matter to Xi Jinping, so that Xi Jinping can feel relieved and express his loyalty to Xi Jinping. , This is the most important thing for him, so you mentioned these slogans as soon as you came here, you put forward such explicit slogans, your slogans are terrible."
Hu Ping: "They want to simply lie down and grind foreign workers. It's okay to say that he is very active and immediately takes action. But, he is completely political disaster relief. How is he trying to please Xi Jinping in the name of disaster relief and dispose of the people?" The lives and property of the public are disregarded.”
Hu Ping: "He doesn't look at you now, mainly because of political loyalty. On the contrary, if you do too many things, you will cause some troubles, so he thinks it is better to do less than to do more, and it is better not to do less. , so lie flat, but, to show loyalty to the leader, this point must not be relaxed.”
Hu Ping: "Of course (the common people) are very dissatisfied, very dissatisfied, so when you see those local officials, when he arrives at the scene, the common people are besieged by the common people, and even started to fight, the common people must be very angry .”
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