We call for urgent action to expand and enforce sanctions to block the supply of aviation fuel to Myanmar. The supply of aviation fuel to Myanmar is fuelling the junta’s ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Following the coup attempt in 2021, the junta has been waging a campaign of terror with indiscriminate airstrikes, shelling, artillery attacks, murder, torture, arbitrary detention, rape, and the destruction of homes and food supplies.

According to Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica, there have been more than 3292 airstrikes since February 2021, resulting in over 1,749 fatalities, including women and children. The number of airstrikes has increased each year since 2021, fuelling a humanitarian crisis with more than 5,654 people killed and over three million people displaced. The junta continues to carry out aerial bombings targeting civilian areas, including homes, schools, hospitals, places of worship, and IDP camps.
On 4 April 2024, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Myanmar, urging Member States to refrain from the export, sale, or transfer of jet fuel to the military. However, the lack of effective action by the international community has enabled the Myanmar military to continue sourcing aviation fuel and escalate its attacks against the civilian population. Despite some sanctions on a local aviation fuel conglomerate, Shoon/Asia Sun group, the Myanmar military is still able to import aviation fuel. It uses intermediaries, including trading companies and fuel storage terminals, to conceal the identity of the primary supplier. Companies based in countries including Vietnam, Singapore, and China have facilitated these transactions.
The international community must take urgent and effective action to implement the Human Rights Council resolution and prevent businesses from supplying aviation fuel to Myanmar. Only through coordinated global efforts can the flow of aviation fuel be stopped, reducing the Myanmar military’s ability to carry out airstrikes and perpetrate further human rights abuses.
We call on the USA, UK, EU and ASEAN member governments to:

Immediately cease the involvement of companies in the direct or indirect export, sale, or transfer of aviation fuel to Myanmar.
Sanction all persons and entities involved in the supply of aviation fuel to Myanmar, including trade, storage, transport, and distribution companies, ships, companies that provide delivery and shipment insurance for aviation fuel, and the junta-controlled Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise.
Enforce sanctions that have already been imposed.

We call on international companies to:

Immediately cease all direct and indirect involvement in the export, sale and transfer of aviation fuel to Myanmar.

Cut off the criminal Myanmar junta’s access to aviation fuel to help end war crimes and crimes against humanity.