A US Campaign for Burma statement released today urged people in Burma to boycott the products of the Hong Pang Group, who are allegedly involved in drug trafficking. The director of the pro-democracy activist group, Aung Din, said “It’s a dirty and corrupt company operated by druglords who support Than Shwe [the ruling junta’s top leader].”

The statement said that the effort is not only part of an international campaign to increase pressure on Burma’s ruling junta, but also part of honoring the 60th birthday of pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house-arrest.

The US government has already accused HPG companies, which are run by ethnic military group the United Wa State Army, of trading drugs as part of the world’s largest armed narcotics trafficking organization.