Sportswear boycott over Myanmar links

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Football fans are being urged by campaigners to boycott the sportswear firm Kappa, which supplies some of the game's leading teams, following claims that many of its products sold in Britain are manufactured in Myanmar.

Teams such as Tottenham Hotspur, Wales and Italy wear kits supplied by Kappa but campaigners for democracy in Myanmar claim that it is inadvertently helping the country's brutal military regime by buying products made there.

The military regime in Myanmar has been heavily criticised for its human rights record and for the way it has suppressed pro-democracy movements.

Textile exports are one of the biggest sources of revenue for the military regime, which is believed to have killed thousands of people in its suppression of democracy. Campaigners claim that last year alone, £50-million worth of textiles were imported to Britain from Myanmar.

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