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According to a recent report from Reuters, an Israeli firm was reportedly awarded a tender to sell spyware to Myanmar before the military coup that took place in February 2021. This raises serious questions about the implications of such sales for civil liberty and human rights in the country. The news is particularly concerning given Israel's well-known reputation for selling surveillance technology to oppressive regimes around the world. It is essential that all governments take steps to ensure that they are not enabling or facilitating any human rights violations through their actions. or policies.In October 2018, Israeli firm NSO Group announced that it had been awarded a tender to sell spyware to Myanmar before the military coup that took place in February 2021.
The company reportedly won the bid with an offer price of approximately US$40 million, according to Reuters. This raises serious questions about the implications of such sales for civil liberty and human rights in Myanmar. The news is particularly concerning given Israel's well-known reputation for selling surveillance technology to oppressive regimes around the world—including Egypt, Bahrain, Hungary and Uzbekistan—as well as its prolific use of such technology within its own borders. .A Myanmar court recently ruled that the military junta, which took control of the country in a coup d'état in February 2018 following the violent crackdown on peaceful protests by Rohingya in Rakhine state, is not guilty of any crimes against humanity. The secret trial took just four minutes to reach this decision.
