Two years after Myanmar’s military waged a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims, U.S. officials say the Trump administration is holding the perpetrators accountable
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The Trump administration’s claims of success in Myanmar are unlikely to appease the human rights community. Many such activists want President Donald Trump and his aides to do more to bring Myanmar’s leaders to justice, including by labeling what happened a “genocide.”asking a survivorAnd while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has green-lighted sanctions and other pressure on Myanmar, he has resisted designating the situation a “genocide.
A second State Department official said Pompeo is juggling multiple priorities when it comes to Myanmar, with the end goal being “to help the Rohingya, to help keep a civilian-led government in power and to keep the Chinese from taking over and making things even worse.” In late August 2017, the Myanmar military launched an operation that killed thousands of Rohingya Muslims and pushed more than 700,000 across the border into Bangladesh. Most of those refugees remain in camps in Bangladesh, too scared to return to Myanmar.
Last month, the U.S. imposed visa sanctions on Myanmar’s top military commander, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and three other top generals over their roles in the Rohingya crisis. Such sanctions mean the people targeted cannot visit the U.S., nor can their immediate relatives, including their children.against the visa sanctions in August was a sign that the U.S. move had upset the generals.
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