US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on Thursday with Burma’s army chief and expressed concern over reported atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, the US State Department said…
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US weighs calling Rohingya crisis ‘ethnic cleansing’
The State Department is considering formally declaring the crackdown on Burma’s Rohingya Muslims to be ethnic cleansing, US officials said on Tuesday, as lawmakers called for sanctions against the Southeast…
US says it is considering sanctions over Burma’s treatment of Rohingya
The United States is taking steps and considering a range of further actions over Burma’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, including targeted sanctions under its Global Magnitsky law, the…
4 Burmese nationalists jailed for US embassy protest
Buddhist monks and nationalists assembled outside the US embassy in April to denounce the use of the term “Rohingya” in an embassy statement.
Child soldiers: Burma no longer a worst offender, says USA
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Burma from a US list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers.
UWSA tin mine circumvents US sanctions
Wa tin likely ends up in an array of products made by US and other international companies, says a new Reuters report.