The U.S. Treasury said it imposed sanctions on two people and six entities connected to Myanmar’s military that Washington accused of enabling its continuing atrocities
The United States on Friday announced further sanctions against Myanmar, targeting the supply of jet fuel to Myanmar’s military following air strikes in civilian populated areas, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The Treasury said the military has continued to commit atrocities and violence against the people of Myanmar since the coup and said it has increasingly relied on air strikes in civilian populated areas, citing an air strike on the village of Let Yet Kone in central Burma that impacted a school and one in the northern state of Kachin that killed as many as 80 people.
Also targeted were individuals and entities the Treasury said were associated with or have provided equipment to Myanmar’s military, including a close associate of the military regime leader and the associate’s companies, Star Sapphire Group of Companies and Star Sapphire Trading Company Limited.
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