A/HRC/42/CRP.3
No.
Name of company
6
State-owned or
private
Country of export
Description of military goods supplied
Korea Mining
State-owned
Development Trading
Corporation (KOMID)
Democratic
People’s Republic
of Korea (DPRK)
Named by the UN Panel of Experts
established pursuant to resolution 1874
(2009) in relation to sanctions on the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as
being linked to importing materiel for the
Myanmar Directorate for Defence
Industries.
7
Bharat Dynamics
Limited
State-owned
India
Tatmadaw Navy procured 10 advanced light
torpedo “Shyena” anti-submarine torpedoes,
in a deal reportedly worth USD 38 million
reportedly signed in March 2017.620
8
Hindustan Aeronautics State-owned
Limited
India
Transferred second-hand HJT-16 Kiran-1
Trainer air craft to the Myanmar Air Force
as aid in 2018.621
9
Israel Aerospace
Industries (IAI) Ltd.
State-owned
Israel
IAI agreed to provide four Super-Dvora Mk
III fast attack craft to the Myanmar Navy.
Two were delivered in April 2017.622
10
TAR Ideal Concepts
Private
Israel
In October 2016, TAR Ideal Concepts, an
Israeli military and police equipment and
training company, posted photographs on its
website of its personnel training the
Tatmadaw Special Operations Taskforce.623
11
Armscor International
Private
Philippines
In November 2018, it was reported that the
Philippine-based company, Armscor
International, has sold competition
handguns to the Tatmadaw Shooting Team,
and was exploring how to further penetrate
the Myanmar defence market, noting that
“there are a number of security agencies in
Myanmar that are interested in new defence
products.” 624 Further investigation is
required.
620
621
622
623
624
SIPRI Database extract of transfers of major weapons: deals with deliveries or orders made for 2016
to 2018, SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
SIPRI Database extract of transfers of major weapons: deals with deliveries or orders made for 2016
to 2018, SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Andrew Selth, “Myanmar: pariah status no bar to defence modernisation,” The Lowy Institute
(https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/myanmar-pariah-status-no-bar-defence-modernisation).
Digital record 2185.
“Filipino handguns triggering into Myanmar,” Southasian Monitor, 9 November 2018
(http://southasianmonitor.com/2018/11/09/filipino-handguns-triggering-into-myanmar/)
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