Products linked to Myanmar’s military junta have been facing boycotts from consumers and businesses.
Myanmar’s military regime is reportedly threatening at gunpoint bar and shop owners who don’t stock a beer manufactured by its junta-owned company.
Customers drink Myanmar Beer, manufactured by Myanmar Brewery Ltd, at a bar in Yangon, Myanmar, before the coup.Among the products citizens have boycotted is military-owned Myanmar Beer, which before the coup enjoyed 80 per cent market share in the South-East Asian nation.reported that officials and troops have begun threatening supermarket chains and shops, restaurants and bars in the main city of Yangon which fail to offer items linked to the military, and ordering them to resume sales.
Myanmar Beer, which is made by the state-owned Myanmar Brewery, had an 80 per cent share of the market before the 2021 coup.Myanmar Brewery was majority-owned by Japanese drinks producer Kirin in a joint venture with military conglomerate Myanmar Economic Holdings. Kirin sold its 51 per cent stake last year for $US140 million as part of a post-coup exodus of foreign operations.
“At gunpoint they can force the retailers to carry [the beer], but people will be even more determined not to buy it,” she said. Yadanar Maung, the spokesperson for activist organisation Justice For Myanmar, said the mass boycott was unprecedented and wounded the armed forces, but called for more to be done to limit the flow of money into the country, including for a toughening of sanctions by the Australian government. International sanctions led by the US, have imposed restrictions on state-owned banks to curb access to foreign currency and arms.
Andrews also reported that Singapore banks had been used extensively by arms dealers in transactions with the regime.
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