In our view, Adani Ports’ record in Myanmar is a shocking account of the pursuit of profits ahead of commitments to respect human rights. Myanmar Sea Port Location of Sea Ports in Myanmar. Original antique map of China and Myanmar (Birmah), with finely engraved border and cartouche, drawn and engraved on steel by John Rapkin and published in. The Australian Centre for International Justice and Justice For Myanmar have published a report, Port of Complicity: Adani Ports in Myanmar which makes an assessment of Adani Ports’ failures to disengage from its commercial relationships with the MEC.įoreign corporations involved in relationships with the Myanmar military are contributing to the devastating damage the military has inflicted on Myanmar and its path to democratic recovery and growth. In March 2021, the US imposed targeted financial sanctions on the military’s two conglomerates, MEHL and MEC because of their links to grave human rights abuses. Present map shows basic topographic features such as transportation. The UN Fact Finding Mission has said that companies, like Adani Ports, are at high risk of contributing to or being complicit, ‘either in law, fact or in the eyes of the public’ with violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law through its contribution to the Myanmar military’s financial capacity. Yangon is the largest city in Myanmar and the industrial and commercial centre of the country. The elevation of the country gradually rises from the sea level at the river deltas of the Irrawaddy and Sittang river systems to Mount Kkakabo in the north. Yangon is located in the southern part of the country on the east bank of the Yangon, or Hlaing, River (eastern mouth of the Irrawaddy River ), 25 miles (40 km) north of the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea. Kyaukpyu is a coastal town along the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar’s western-most state of Rakhine. Attributes include Port Name, Port Type (Sea port and deep Sea Port Projects), as well as Source. km in the northwesternmost part of mainland Southeast Asia. Adani Group subsidiary, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (Adani Ports), is building a container port in Yangon, Myanmar in an agreement with the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), a conglomerate controlled by the Myanmar military that finances their atrocity crimes.Īdani Ports’ construction of a shipping port on military owned land in Yangon has raised the question about the complicity of foreign corporations involved in commercial relationships with Myanmar military companies. Myanmar (formerly Burma) occupies an area of 676,578 sq.
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