The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited ATR and its subsidiary, ATR Eastern Support, to respond to the JFM report concerning companies’ involvement in the Myanmar military’s use of ATR aircrafts as it “commits war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity”. The report alleges that ATR Eastern Support collaborated with Gateways Hongkong and ST Engineering Aerospace to “overhaul and repair three ATR-42 aircraft in active use by the Myanmar military (two ATR 42-320 models with MSN 178 and MSN 159 and one ATR 42-500 with MSN 602)”. Further, it is alleged that “ATR Eastern continued to ship parts to International Gateways Group despite its complicity in genocide and the fact it and Myanmar Consultancy do not operate an airline, which should have raised red flags as to the end user”.

ATR did not respond.