US Sanctions Burmese Officials

The State Department sanctioned four Burmese officials and their immediate family members for “gross human rights violations” related to Burma’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, the State Department said in a July 16 press release. The department sanctioned Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win, Brigadier General Than Oo and Brigadier General Aung Aung. The State Department said these sanctions make the U.S. “the first government to publicly take action with respect to the most senior leadership of the Burmese military.”