WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th August, 2018) The United States will continue to take action against those responsible for human rights violations in Myanmar, US Envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a statement on Friday, just hours after the Treasury Department slapped new sanctions on alleged human rights violators in the country.
"We will continue to shine a light on these atrocities and take action against the perpetrators," Haley said.
Haley added that the United States would continue to call for the release of a Reuters journalists who has been jailed in Myanmar for almost a year.
Earlier on Friday, the US Treasury Department said it sanctioned four people from Myanmar and two divisions of the country's army under the Global Magnitsky Act in an effort to stop brutal human rights violations including ethnic cleansing, massacres and sexual assault.
Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, have been fleeing their homes to avoid waves of violence following the government's deployment of police and military units in response to an attack by Rohingya insurgents on security posts in the Rakhine State. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), nearly 700,000 Rohingyas have left the country for Bangladesh since last August for the fear of persecution.
