Southeast Asian nation in breach of global convention and may still have arms left over from the 1980s. FMTNews Myanmar SuuKyi
November 26, 2019 6:20 AM
The southeast Asian nation may still have weapons at a “historic” facility where mustard gas was produced, a senior State Department official told the annual meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Washington had information that Myanmar “had a chemical weapons programme in the 1980s that included a sulphur mustard development programme and chemical weapons production facility”, he added.
The previous year, Myanmar’s then quasi-civilian government denied using chemical weapons against rebels from the Kachin ethnic minority during clashes in the north of the country.
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