Washington Examiner
Washington ExaminerJoel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter
March 30, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is ordering most State Department personnel in Myanmar to leave the country after more than 100 people were killed by the regime during protests against the military junta.
“The actions that we’ve seen by the Burmese military in terms of its attacks on civilians are reprehensible,” Blinken told reporters Tuesday, using the name for the nation that military officials discarded in a previous seizure of power. “Some people simply caught in the crossfire, others just expressing peacefully their views ... This follows a series of other attacks and, indeed, increasingly disturbing and even horrifying violence.”