change of name to SSPC on July 31, the junta has further intensified its campaign of terror against the people, with indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling, arbitrary arrests, torture and the destruction of whole communities. Digital surveillance and censorship is now increasing as part of the junta's attempts to hold a sham election in December. An “election” protection law it passed in July carries the death penalty and has already resulted in the arrest of Nay Thway, a resident of Taunggyi, for criticising the junta's "election" in a Facebook post.11 The junta's online and offline terror campaign has been enabled by the Chinese government and companies, and their complicity is only deepening. Chinese companies are the junta's main arms suppliers. This includes state-owned enterprises that continue to supply the Myanmar military with weapons, maintenance, and the repair and overhaul of weapon platforms. This support has continued unabated since the attempted coup in February 2021 and has included deliveries to all branches of the Myanmar armed forces: land, air and navy. Myanmar military personnel are also being trained, including through scholarships provided by Chinese state-owned arms companies, at numerous defence-oriented universities and engineering schools affiliated with the Peoples' Liberation Army. On 22 October 2024, the Myanmar junta formed a working committee to prepare a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government for the creation of a new joint venture security firm to "handle the import of weapons and special equipment, including communications devices and restricted tools," showing that the supply of weapons, equipment and technology is only continuing.12 In the telecommunications front, no company has been more important for the junta's attempts to control and surveil the internet than China's Geedge Networks, which has sold the junta a commercialised version of China's "Great Firewall". Using a new leak of documents from Geedge Networks, Justice For Myanmar has investigated the extent of Geedge Networks’ collaboration with the military junta, and the telecommunications companies operating in Myanmar that have joined the junta's country-wide online surveillance and censorship regime. The Geedge dataset has been reviewed by a coalition of media and nongovernmental/civil society organisations through the Great Firewall Export project. The coalitions is made up of InterSecLab,13 which provided support on the technical aspects of the collaboration, hosted the research platform and made the Geedge dataset searchable, Amnesty International,14 the Globe and Mail, Paper Trail Media, Tor Project, DER STANDARD and Follow The Money. This collaboration has resulted in the publication of reports and articles outlining Geedge 5

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