Tatmadaw Sanctions Bill Heads for Vote in US Congress

The Irrawaddy
By Nan Lwin
21 June 2019

Rohingya Refugees stand in a queue to collect meat from a relief distribution center in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 23, 2018. / Reuters  

YANGON—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has advanced legislation in the U.S. Congress to impose new sanctions on the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw—the latest foreign effort to put pressure on the military in response to the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine State.

Asean should back EU’s sanctions on Myanmar.

THE NATION
Opinion
May 02, 2019 01:00
By The Nation

Regional bloc has the power to help end military atrocities that have killed thousands 

This past Monday, the European Union extended its ban on selling arms to Myanmar while also prolonging sanctions against high-ranking officials suspected of perpetrating atrocities against the country’s Rohingya Muslims.

The sanctions are aimed at preventing the export of arms and equipment “that might be used for internal repression”, the EU announced.

EU extends Myanmar arms embargo, other sanctions for a year

The Washinton Post

By Associated Press

April 29 at 11:28 AM

 

BRUSSELS — The European Union is prolonging by a year an embargo on any arms that could be used in security crackdowns in Myanmar as well as sanctions against 14 top military and border officials.

EU headquarters said Monday that based on an annual review the restrictive measures will be extended until April 30, 2020.

The travel bans and asset freezes were imposed on the 14 officials “for serious human rights violations, or association with such violations” against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority.

Myanmar’s military launched a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the western state of Rakhine in 2017, forcing more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.

The EU also refuses to cooperate with, or provide training to, the Myanmar military.

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US Pressure on Human Rights Pushes Myanmar Into China’s Arms

THE CITIZEN

P.K.BALACHANDRAN | 28 MARCH, 2019

US Treasury had imposed sanctions on four Myanmarese army officers

Mounting pressure on Myanmar from the US and other Western nations to urgently and satisfactorily address human rights issues vis-à-vis the Rohingya Muslims, the Buddhist Arakanese and other ethnic groups, has pushed the Aung San Suu Kyi regime in Yangon further into the arms of China.

US senators: Sanction Myanmar army leader.

THE Star ONLINE
Friday, 22 Mar 2019

WASHINGTON: Senators called Wednesday for the United States to slap sanctions on Myanmar's army chief, saying more needed to be done to bring accountability over the campaign against the Rohingya.

Senators ask US to sanction Myanmar army chief.

MailOnline 
By AFP |20 March 2019

Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seen here inspecting a bridge in August 2018, is facing calls from US senators to face punishment over the campaign against the Rohingya minority

Senators called Wednesday for the United States to slap sanctions on Myanmar's army chief, saying more needed to be done to bring accountability over the campaign against the Rohingya.

In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the four senators said Myanmar has shown "no credible signs of progress" despite widespread international condemnation of the killings and sexual violence against members of the mostly Muslim minority.