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.
The military has ruled the country formerly called Burma for most of the 75 years since independence from Britain. Its tentacles extend throughout the economy, either formally – via umbrella groups which control more than 100 companies – or informally through cronies with ties to the junta. Despite international pressure, the governing generals retain close relations with Russia and China, its primary arms suppliers, and a May report by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews said dozens of entities based in Singapore had been involved in supplying $US254 million of military-related equipment to the junta.
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