Israel Sells Weapons to Myanmar

Commander in Chief of the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot during a trip to Israel – PIC photo.

Occupied Jerusalem, MINA – Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday revealed that the Israeli ministry of war still refuses to halt weapons sales to Myanmar (Burma) despite the genocides being carried out by Myanmar’s regime against the Muslim minority of Rohingya.

The paper said that a senior general from Myanmar’s army paid a visit to Israel in September 2015 in which he met with Israeli officials and purchased military equipment, pointing out that the successive Israeli governments have been selling arms to “the military dictatorship in Burma” for years.

It affirmed that arms deals between Israel and Myanmar are in full swing despite the embargo imposed by the United States and Europe on weapon sales to the regime there, PIC reported.

The Myanmar army has been waging a genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan since 25th August. Based on preliminary statistics released by the European Rohingya Council on 28th August, between 2,000 and 3,000 Muslims were killed in just three days.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Monday that more than 87,000 Rohingyas have fled from Arakan to the neighboring Bangladesh.(R/R04/RS5

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)