The Myanmar military controls an extensive business empire that enables it to avoid accountability and conduct operations with impunity against ethnic groups, contributing to widespread human rights abuses, according to a United Nations report...

A United Nations fact-finding mission urged foreign businesses and governments to sever ties with more than 140 companies owned or controlled by the military, which has carried out acampaign of ethnic cleansing, murder and rape of Rohingya Muslims....

The mission found that at least 14 companies from seven nations, including Russia, China and North Korea, had provided arms and equipment to the Tatmadaw since 2016.

“The mission finds that any foreign business activity involving the Tatmadaw and its conglomerates M.E.H.L. and M.E.C. poses a high risk of contributing to, or being linked to, violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” the report said, using the initials for Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited and the Myanmar Economic Corporation.