Instead of rendering succour to the victims of Cyclone Mocha, reports India’s Pioneer, Myanmar’s junta used the storm as a cover to attack villages mainly in the Sagaing region, north-west of Mandalay, which has been a bastion of resistance to it.
Myanmar continues to receive aviation fuel, used in airstrikes, from companies in Asia and Europe. Anna Roberts, executive director of Burma Campaign UK, welcomed the EU’s February 2023 sanctions as being “right on target.” She, however, also pointed out that the EU was too slow in implementing these sanctions, adding that “the delay in cutting off the sources of revenue, arms and equipment” was costing lives. “Two years from the coup, there are hundreds of companies and individuals which should be sanctioned, and have not been.”