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Rohingya crisis: US target Burma general accused of leading atrocities in major new sanctions Rohingya crisis: US target Burma general accused of leading atrocities in major new sanctions
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The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Burma for the first time since the countries began repairing relations five years ago.  The US has sanctioned a Burmese general accused of leading a murderous campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven more than 600,000 members of a Mulism minority from the country.
The Treasury Department says its penalties are targeting 13 people worldwide for human rights abuse and corruption.  The US Treasury announced that Maung Maung Soe, who oversaw the military operation in the northwest Rakhine state, was among 52 individuals and entities who were being sanctioned for alleged alleged human rights violations and corruption.
Among them is Maung Maung Soe. He was Burma's army chief responsible for operations in Rakhine state, where Washington and much of the world say "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims has occurred. The UN's human rights chief has said he cannot rule out genocide. It said it had “examined credible evidence of Maung Maung Soe's activities, including allegations against Burmese security forces of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and arbitrary arrest as well as the widespread burning of villages”.
The military campaign has undermined US-Burma ties that had improved with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and return to power.  Among other individuals hit by sanctions were Benjamin Bol Mel, who has served as an adviser to South Sudan President Salva Kiir, former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general.
Other targets of the US penalties are Gambia's former president, as well as the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general.  
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