Press Release: December 10, 2019US sanctions Burma army chief Min Aung Hlaing
International Campaign for the Rohingya welcomes the announcement today by the U.S. Treasury Department that it has added Burma’s army chief, Min Aung Hlaing, to the list of those individuals sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act.
“This sanction of Burma’s army chief, Min Aung Hlaing, is an announcement very fitting for December 10th, Human Rights Day,” said Simon Billenness, Executive Director of the International Campaign for the Rohingya.
“We urge other countries to join the United States in sanctioning Burmese army leaders and the Myanmar’s military’s extensive business empire. This also sends a message to companies, like Western Union and Kirin, to end their business partnerships with Burma’s army. There can be no “business as usual” with the perpetrators of genocide.”
For more information contact:
Simon Billenness
Executive Director, International Campaign for the Rohingya
Campaign Director, No Business With Genocide
Mobile (US): 617-596-6158
Twitter: @Rohingya_ICR
simon.billenness@rohingyacampaign.org
www.rohingyacampaign.org
As much as we wish is wasn’t so, genocides are happening all around us. In Myanmar, the Rohingya are being persecuted. In China, the Uyghurs are being forced into slave labor camps and subjected to horrors and death. The Sudan civil war has escalated to genocide. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the killings continue. Armenians who had lived peacefully in Azerbaijan for generations have been forced out and their coummunities erased. We need your help to stop these atrocties.
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