Showing posts with label Financial Sanctions. Show all posts
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Bangladesh Calls for Financial Sanctions on Myanmar, as Country Pushes for Rohingya Repatriation

VOA
By Anis Ahmed, Leslie Bonilla
July 19, 2019 

WASHINGTON - Bangladesh wants Myanmar to repatriate the nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees who have fled genocide, and a top Bangladeshi official wants international financial sanctions to back it up.

Much of the Muslim-majority ethnic group has fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar’s latest brutal crackdown in 2017, which included mass killings, sexual assaults and arson. The military has justified its crackdown, which involved mass killings, gang rapes and widespread arson, as a way of eradicating Rohingya insurgents.