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Kirin, parent company of Australian beer company Lion, cuts ties with Myanmar military after coup
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Australian beer brands like XXXX Gold are owned by Lion, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kirin.
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The parent company of Lion, which owns and distributes some of Australia s most iconic beers, has cut ties with the Myanmar military after it staged a coup this week.
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The Australian company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kirin Holdings
Kirin was urged to cut ties following allegations the military committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority
Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 11.32 EST
Human rights groups have urged Japanese brewing giant Kirin, the multinational behind beer brands XXXX, Tooheys, Kirin, and Little Creatures, to cut ties with its Myanmar business operations, alleging its continued part-ownership of two military-linked breweries there makes it effectively complicit in war crimes committed by the military in Myanmar.
The company owns just over half of of both Myanmar Brewery and Mandalay Brewery in partnership with Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL), a company controlled by the country’s military that a UN investigation has found is overseen by the commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
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