“Blood Money Campaign Calls on ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to Address ASEAN-Based Corporate Support for the Myanmar Junta’s Campaign

No. 3/2026

Date: 11 June 2026

The Blood Money Campaign (BMC) has submitted a formal submission to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) regarding ASEAN-based corporate actors’ involvement in the junta’s aerial terror operations and human rights violations in Myanmar. We, BMC, request the Commission’s immediate attention to the urgent need for AICHR to recommend action by ASEAN Member States, issue public statements, and urge measures to protect affected communities in Myanmar and prevent further violations.

The Myanmar military junta led by Min Aung Hlaing has killed nearly 93,000 civilians in Myanmar. From 2021 to April 2026, over 5 years, the junta carried out at least 7,201 airstrike incidents, resulting in 7,809 casualties and 4,496 fatalities, including pregnant women and infants. Myanmar junta violence has forcibly displaced 5.3 million people within Myanmar as of the end of March 2026. At least 1,077 children and 2,193 women had been killed by the Myanmar junta forces since the 2021 military coup attempt.

The intensity of aerial attacks escalated sharply from 85 incidents in 2021 to over 2,504 in 2024. This escalation also highlights the broader link between war crimes in Myanmar and ASEAN’s failure to effectively pressure the Myanmar military junta, which has allowed the violence to continue.

In this advocacy letter to AICHR, we present evidence regarding the actions of companies in certain ASEAN Member States, notably Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia and their governments, which have facilitated human rights violations and war crimes in Myanmar. Evidence suggests that these actors have directly or indirectly facilitated access to foreign revenue, arms, equipment, aviation fuel supply chain, and technology that have fueled atrocities against civilians. These resources have been used to carry out airstrikes. Foreign revenue from the oil and gas sector is implicated in atrocity crimes in Myanmar, providing the military with millions of dollars and sustaining its terror operations and continued commission of international crimes.

According to the mandates in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) Five-Year Work Plans 2021-2025 (Priority Areas PA 2.5) and 2026-2030 (Mandate 4.11: which includes regional dialogues on responsible business and human rights as a Priority Programme), we urge AICHR to follow these recommendations.

We call on AICHR to urge ASEAN Member States to:

1. Conduct open investigations into companies, banks, and individuals supplying arms, dual-use goods, and aviation fuel to the junta, and take appropriate regulatory and sanctions measures.
2. Call on the Thai government to cut off the Myanmar junta’s access to international financial services and gas revenues, which are used to purchase arms, aviation fuel, and aircraft to kill civilians.
3. Call on PTT, PTTEP, and GPM to stop bankrolling the junta through monthly gas payments and instead place those funds in an escrow account that the junta cannot access, preserving them for a future democratic government of Myanmar.
4. Call on the Vietnamese government to stop facilitating the supply chain of aviation fuel from international companies.
5. Call on the Singapore government to increase efforts to stop the support, facilitation, and sale of arms, equipment, and aviation fuel supply chain.
6. Call on the Malaysian government to end human rights violations linked to oilfield service companies operating in Myanmar’s oil and gas sector, and urge Indonesia to regulate its companies’ involvement in oil and gas projects linked to MOGE.

We recommend that AICHR make recommendations and urge ASEAN Member States to: 

1. Coordinate implementation of targeted sanctions imposed by the U.S., UK, Canada, and the EU, and ensure that ASEAN Member States do not engage in business with the Myanmar military, sanctioned banks, the oil and gas sector, or aviation fuel suppliers.
2. Uphold the “right to peace,” support a Myanmar people-led and people-centered solution to the crisis in Myanmar, and respect the human rights obligations owed to the people of Myanmar, as enshrined in the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration.
3. Take meaningful action, both collectively and through individual Member States, to stop the Myanmar junta’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide.

For more information, please contact:
Blood Money Campaign (BMC), bloodmoneycampaign21@protonmail.com
Signal Contact: @eden.53 (username)

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Blood Money Campaign (BMC) is a collective of young social activists and students from diverse nationalities, religious/ ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities (PWDs), peace, education, research, IT and civic engagement backgrounds, united in the fight against the dictatorship of Myanmar’s military junta and its oppression. We target the junta’s foreign revenue streams to weaken its military power and hold accountable companies that continue to do business with the junta.

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