US Designates Myanmar Military Chief, Top Generals For Sanctions Over Rohingya Killings

By RFA
July 16, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and three other senior Myanmar military generals for travel sanctions for their roles in a 2017 army campaign that killed thousands of Rohingya and drove more 700,000 of the Muslim ethnic minority into Bangladesh.

Min Aung Hlaing, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win, Brigadier General Than Oo and Brigadier General Aung Aung were designated for their “responsibility for gross human rights violations, including in extrajudicial killings in northern Rakhine State, Burma, during the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya,” Pompeo said in a statement.

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