Jerome J. Zaucha
The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is already under multiple layers of U.S. sanctions since a military coup ousted the democratically elected government in February 2021. Thousands of civilians throughout the country have been killed and imprisoned as part of ongoing repression of an...
Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s martyred independence hero Gen. Aung San, spent almost 15 years as a political prisoner under house arrest between 1989 and 2010. She is being held in a newly constructed separate building in the prison in the capital, Naypyitaw, near the courthouse where...
Does he really want to eradicate all of the scam centers that he’s played a role in building up since December 2016. That’s when the first of these criminal kingpins came into the Myanmar-Thai borderlands at the invitation of the Myanmar military’s BGF under Chit Thu....
YANGON—Japan is completely opposed to efforts by some countries to impose trade sanctions against Myanmar over the Rohingya issue, believing such a move would seriously hurt ordinary people while doing nothing to resolve the crisis, the Japanese ambassador to Myanmar said. Myanmar has come under ...
Nicholas Kristof: The Myanmar soldiers herded the women and girls into huts to be raped. They cut the children's throats before beginning the rapes
These sanctions breaches are not confined to Russia. In fact, it is difficult to find a sanctions regime that has not been breached. Schiebel, the Austrian manufacturer, exported dual-use goods to Myanmar before and after the 2021 coup without theexport licenserequired und...
But with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Thailand’s Phuket Island is transforming into a different kind of getaway: a refuge for Russians fleeing military conscription, political oppression and the economic impact of Western sanctions. ...
EU retreats from fight with Asia over Myanmar, vows more sanctions if opposition leader Suu Kyi is not freed by Oct. 8EU retreats from fight with Asia over Myanmar, vows more sanctions if opposition leader Suu Kyi is not freed by Oct. 8...
and the United States has never thought of sending in the troops. The whole American approach to the generals has been based not upon military threats but on economic sanctions and political isolation. Japan’s aid to Myanmar undercuts the American policy and helps the generals remain in power...