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Figure 3: Arms and Military Equipment Suppliers to the Tatmadaw
VI. Conclusions and recommendations
177. In its September 2018 report, the Mission found that the Tatmadaw and forces
under its control were responsible for the majority of violations and crimes committed
in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine State, as documented by the Mission. 423 The Mission
recommended that a political, constitutional and legislative reform process transform
the place, role and power of the Tatmadaw and other security forces, including through
removing military prerogatives in politics and the economy.424
178. This report, on the economic interests of the Tatmadaw, further substantiates
that recommendation, illustrating how the Tatmadaw uses its web of commercial
interests, established through military-linked companies and subsidiaries, relationships
with State-owned enterprises and private crony companies, to secure financial
resources to support its activities and personnel. In doing so, the Tatmadaw insulates
itself from accountability and oversight. Through controlling its own business empire,
the Tatmadaw can evade the accountability and oversight that normally arise from
civilian oversight of military budgets.
179. In addition, this report has begun to illuminate the role that other corporate
actors play in contributing to or benefiting from the human rights and international
humanitarian law violations of the Tatmadaw. Foreign companies with joint ventures
and other commercial relationships with the Tatmadaw, Myanmar business donors to
the Tatmadaw’s operations, and arms suppliers are in some cases legally implicated in
the conduct of the Tatmadaw, and in all cases complicit through their tacit acceptance
423
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A/HRC/39/CRP.2, paragraph 1554.
A/HRC/39/CRP.2, paragraph 1631.
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