Tag: junta

Despite EU sanctions, cash-hungry Myanmar military offers to accept Euros in upcoming teak auction.

Despite trade sanctions imposed in June to ban imports of Myanmar teak into Europe, more than 300 tonnes of the ‘king of woods’ worth well over €2 million has since entered into Italy, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal

Myanmar’s violent military junta is tomorrow (16 September) poised to hold one of two massive auctions of illicit timber to replenish its coffers; the second is due to take place on 30 September.

The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is appalled to learn that respected forests and rights defender and democracy advocate Kyaw Min Htut has been arrested and detained by the junta in Myanmar

Italy has been exposed at the heart of an ongoing trade in illicit timber from Myanmar, in defiance of both EU trade regulations and sanctions imposed in response to the violent military coup earlier this year

Council of the European Union today announced a new wave of sanctions against the brutal military regime in Myanmar, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomed the move for recognising the importance of the county’s natural resources sector, especially timber exports, in generating hard currency for the regime