UK widens aviation fuel sanctions on Myanmar junta

Myanmar’s former colonial ruler the UK has announced  “a new round” of sanctions targeting “suppliers to the Myanmar regime of military equipment and other material”, including aviation fuel. In a March 27 statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said the newly-sanctioned entities “include a company and its director who supply the Myanmar Air Forces with aviation fuel and a second individual who is the director of a company which supplies restricted goods and technology through its business”. The military seized power in Myanmar in a February 2021 coup, returning the south-east Asian country, which is also known as Burma,