How Myanmar’s Armed Forces Fund Atrocities

Expand Marzuki Darusman and Christopher Sidoti, chair and member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, speak at a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 5, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo The United Nations-mandated Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar released a new report earlier today detailing the Myanmar military’s longstanding but opaque web of control over the country’s economy. The mission urged the international community to take immediate steps to financially isolate the military. The 111-page report arrives a year after the Fact-Finding Mission’s extensive documentation of the security…

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