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26 Apr 2021

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Australian Centre for International Justice & Justice for Myanmar

Myanmar: New report reveals Indian company Adani Ports has failed to disengage with the Myanmar Economic Corporation

"PORT OF COMPLICITY: ADANI IN MYANMAR", 30 March 2021

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.

Adani 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. 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...

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.