Call for Action: Czech Civilian Aircraft Deployed by Junta in Terror Aerial Operations and Urge Halt to Further Sales to Myanmar
13 May 2026
Date: 13 May 2026
We acknowledge and express our gratitude for the Czech Republic’s firm support for the Myanmar Spring Revolution (revival of the revolution) and the pro-democracy movement.
The illegitimate Myanmar military junta continues to seize power through force of arms. Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who has committed grave atrocities and brutal crimes, has appointed himself as “President” alongside the junta-controlled military parliament following a sham election. While publicly claiming a transition toward democracy through various deceptive narratives and fraudulent statements directed at the domestic and international community, the junta continues to carry out mass killings of civilians, severe human rights violations, war crimes, and daily aerial attacks.
The Myanmar junta is not only deploying military fighter jets but also utilising the Czech-manufactured Let L410-UVP E20 Turbolets (Let L410) by Aircraft industries, part of the Omnipol Group.
According to fight-tracking data from 16 June to 16 September 2025, Blood Money Campaign found that Let L410 aircraft were used at Pathein Air Base Headquarters and Tada‑U Air Base. In June and July 2025, the aircraft made 16 takeoffs and landings over eight flight days, including three training flights, two transport missions, and three flights that could not be verified. The total estimated flight time was at least 13 hours.
According to Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica, from February 2021 to 19 March 2026, the Myanmar military junta has carried out at least 6,980 aerial bombing attacks. At least 4,299 civilians, including pregnant women and children under six months of age, have been killed, and 7,552 people have sustained serious injuries.
Myanmar Witness has published two investigations documenting the transfer of five Czech-made Let L410 aircraft from Kunovice Airport to Myanmar between September 2024 and February 2026. Although the Czech government has stated that the aircraft delivered to Myanmar were for civilian use, Myanmar Witness’s evidence collection and analysis disputes this. As supported by open-source information, social media content and visual analysis tools, their investigation indicates the aircraft’s presence at military facilities and their commissioning into Myanmar’s air force.
Myanmar Witness has documented how at least one of the delivered Let L410s was repeatedly tracked operating from and, on one occasion, captured by satellite imagery on the runway at Hmawbi airbase. This is a Myanmar Air Force (MAF) military installation with no facilities for civilian aircraft. In addition, flight tracking and social media indicated a Let L410 (likely XY-AMV) approaching the Wawlay area, Karen State, amid reported clashes near the border in mid-November 2025. On December 11, 2025, a Let L410 aircraft was also seen stationed on the tarmac at Magway Air Base.
According to the statement of the Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister on September 8, 2025, the Let L410 aircraft were sent solely to Myanmar Airways International (MAI) for civilian use. However, flight tracking data and photographic evidence reveal discrepancies, indicating that Let L410 aircraft are being used by the Myanmar Air Force (MAF).
On August 15, 2024, United Overseas Bank (UOB), a Singapore-based financial institution, closed MAI’s bank accounts citing economic sanctions concerns. This demonstrates that although MAI operates as a civilian airline, it is facilitating central financial flows and aircraft usage tied to the military junta’s war crimes.
The Myanmar military junta’s air force is using Czech-manufactured aircraft in operations supporting its terror aerial campaigns, which could place the Czech government and Omnipol Group in violation of the EU’s arms embargo and sanctions on Myanmar. Therefore, the Czech Republic must immediately adopt effective and concrete measures in response to the Myanmar military junta’s use of Turbolet Let L410 aircraft, originally supplied for civilian purposes, as part of aerial terror operations that cause civilian casualties.
The Blood Money Campaign strongly urges the Czech Republic Government to take action against the Myanmar junta and to use its leverage over the Omnipol Group to halt all aircraft that are still being supplied to, or planned for delivery to, Myanmar.
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