Arakan News Agency
For the second time in a row, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz continued to reveal Israel’s sale of weapons to the state of Myanmar, despite UN accusations of ethnic genocide against the Muslim minority Rohingya.
The Myanmar government has concluded arms deals worth tens of millions of dollars with Israeli arms companies, the paper said Tuesday.
“The value of arms deals is estimated at tens of millions of dollars,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted sources in Israeli arms manufacturers as saying.
The Myanmar navy commander “visited Israel last year and expressed his admiration and desire for more information on Israeli weapons,” it said, quoting an officer involved in the deals.
“This was the second visit of the naval commander in five years,” it said.
The newspaper pointed out that the sale of arms to Myanmar, despite the restrictions on the sale of arms to this country, because of “crimes documented by the United Nations against the Rohingya Muslims.”
The newspaper “Haaretz” reported in its issue on Monday, that Israel has sold weapons to Myanmar used by the latter to commit crimes of ethnic cleansing against members of the Rohingya minority.
The Myanmar Navy recently posted on its official Facebook page pictures of the new warships purchased from Israel.
“It is clear from the pictures that the weapons on these ships are of Israeli production, including the Typhoon firing systems, which are produced by the Israeli development company Rafal.”
These warships are part of a major deal between Myanmar and Israel.
The Israeli army refused to comment on the matter, according to the newspaper.
The Haaretz newspaper on Tuesday used a pamphlet on Myanmar’s navy page on Facebook published six months ago to confirm that the system received two Dvora MK III warships.
In this regard, the “RAMTA” section of Israeli military industries manufacturing the Dvora MK III will transport two additional boats to the Myanmar army, without specifying a date.
“According to some reports on the deal, these boats will be built in Myanmar with the help of Israeli technology,” it said.
it points out that the Israeli arms industries refused to comment on this report.
Israeli human rights activist and lawyer Itai Mack told the Anadolu news agency earlier this month that the Israeli government refused to pledge to stop selling arms to the Myanmar regime.
Mack submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court to stop the sale of arms to the regime in Myanmar.
Since August 25, the Myanmar army has been committing atrocities against Buddhist Muslims and Buddhist militias, killing thousands of people, according to identical local and international sources.
As a result of these massacres and crimes, 603,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh, according to the latest UN statistics.
The Myanmar government regards the Rohingya Muslims as “illegal immigrants” from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as “the most persecuted religious minority in the world.”
