On Friday the US Treasury Department published a statement that it had imposed sanctions on two individuals and six entities linked to the Myanmar military.
In 2021, the military seized power in Myanmar through a coup. Since then, the United States has taken this step to increase the pressure on the junta government.
The U.S. Treasury alleges that these individuals and entities have provided Myanmar’s military with fighter jet fuel and helped import and stockpile it, enabling it to carry out incessant airstrikes and bombings of civilians.
The country has been in crisis since the military seized power in February 2021.
The U.S. Treasury Department also said “The Myanmar military has continued to perpetrate atrocities and violence against the country’s people since the coup. They are carrying out airstrikes on heavily populated areas. An airstrike damaged a school in a village in central Burma and 80 people were killed in an airstrike in northern Kachin state.”
US Treasury Under secretary Brian Nelson said in a statement, “Myanmar’s military rulers are inflicting suffering and pain on their own people.”
There was no immediate response from the Myanmar Embassy in Washington in response to the US statement.
Protesters have been fighting the military since the beginning. Bloody movements, conflicts, anti-coup protests are still going on. There is a massive crackdown on the protests. Anti-junta government and resistance forces formed.
