Israel claims to have distanced itself from Myanmar. So why are Myanmar's military officials attending a state-run weapons conference?
of several military officials from Myanmar wearing military uniforms and entering the major weapons and security conference in Israel. Israel claimed as early as 2017 that it had stopped selling weapons to Myanmar due to pressure from human rights groups.
Still, it appears that Israel's military cooperation with Myanmar hasn't been altogether canceled. Last month, the human rights group Amnesty International issued a statement calling on Israel to stop arming countries that violate human rights. "Israeli companies continue to export weapons to countries that systematically violate human rights" and that"often these weapons reach their destination after a series of transactions, thereby skirting international monitoring and the rules of Israel itself," reads a report by Amnesty International.
This file photograph taken on October 21, 2016, shows Myanmar soldiers patrolling a village in Rakhine state during security operations against militant Rohingya Muslims.are an indigenous group based in theState in northwestern Myanmar. Starting in 2017, a crackdown by the country's military forced around 400,000Muslims out of Myanmar and into neighboring Bangladesh and beyond. The United Nations called the event a"textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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