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According to a report by Myanmar's official media: On May 24, the Myanmar Military Court sentenced 28 people who attacked the two factories with 20 years of imprisonment and hard labor. During the riots in Yangon in March, a series of factories mainly invested by China were set on fire.

The military-run Myawady news portal said the perpetrators targeted a shoe factory and a garment factory in the Laydaya Industrial Zone on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

The two existing factories that were attacked in the Laydaya Industrial Zone are the apparel and garment factory "Global Fashion", a Sino-Myanmar joint venture, and the factory "Changyi Footwear" invested by Taiwanese businessmen in Myanmar-Changyi Footwear. The parent company of Taiwanese shoemaking group "Laiyixingye", which opened an investment in Myanmar in 2014, mainly produces Adidas shoes. As of 2020, the factory employs as many as 9,000 people, making it the largest foreign company in Myanmar. One of the investors.

Burnt shoe factory

According to sources, on March 14th, these 28 people participated in the smashing of a shoe factory (at the junction of Wupulin Road and Wu Ruibin Road) and a garment factory (94/95 Wutunniu Road) in Laydaya Township. , Arson, and was sentenced in accordance with Article 436, Section 34 of the Criminal Law.

At present, 18 of the 28 suspects are at large, and the military court has issued an arrest warrant.

32 Chinese factories were destroyed in the attack

The shock to the factories has caused a large number of factories to close down, but also caused a lot of local labor unemployment.

It is reported that within a few days of the violent incident, hundreds of thousands of people in Laydaya township, including families of migrant workers, were evacuated from the area.

The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar stated at the time that many Chinese workers were injured and trapped in the arson attack, and called on the Myanmar side to protect the property of Chinese-funded enterprises and Chinese citizens.

According to China's "Global Times" report in March, a total of 32 Chinese-owned factories were damaged in the attack, and property losses amounted to US$36.9 million (approximately 240 million yuan).

The Burmese army launched a coup on February 1st and overthrew the elected civilian government.

No organization claims to be responsible for the incineration of these factories. Since the military took power and arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party, Myanmar has been in chaos, with daily protests, marches and strikes against the military government.

According to the “Assistance Association for Political Prisoners”, an organization of activists, security forces responded with lethal force, killing more than 800 people. The military denied this figure. The coup leader Min Aung Hlaing recently stated that about 300 people were in They were killed in the unrest, including 47 policemen.