The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (abbreviated SAC-M) is an independent advisory group of international experts, to provide an international platform for the democratic movement in Myanmar. SAC-M was co-founded by three UN officials,

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and

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, in March 2021, in response to the

2021 Myanmar coup d'état A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar's military—which then veste ...

. The group regularly publishes briefing reports and analyses relating to the domestic situation in post-coup Myanmar. SAC-M advocates a coordinated global 'three cuts' strategy against the military junta, namely to 'cut the weapons, cut the cash, and cut the impunity.'

Reports

In January 2023, SAC-M published a report, ''Fatal Business: Supplying the Myanmar Military’s Weapon Production'', that detailed how the Burmese military had significantly increased arms production as fighting in the

Myanmar civil war Insurgencies have been ongoing in Myanmar since 1948, the year the country, then known as Burma, gained independence from the United Kingdom. The conflict has largely been ethnic-based, with several ethnic armed groups fighting Myanmar's ...

escalated. The report implicated foreign companies based in Austria, France, China, Singapore, India, Israel, Ukraine, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the U.S.

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* * Burmese democracy movements Human rights in Myanmar Organizations established in 2021 {{Myanmar-org-stub