APRIL 12, 2019
BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA
Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Todd Young, R-Ind., introduced the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act on Thursday. It was co-sponsored by 14 lawmakers.
MK MASOUD GNAIM (center) participates in a protest against the killing of his Rohingya Muslim ‘brothers’ in Myanmar, outside the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv, September 11, 2017.. (photo credit: UNITED ARAB LIST)
(JTA) — Jewish groups applauded the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the Senate to sanction Burmese officials responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya people.
The legislation calls for the United States to take a number of measures in response to the violence against the Rohingya perpetrated by the Burmese government.