US imposes sanctions over Rakhine massacre, but stops short of calling it 'genocide'

The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on four Myanmar officials involved in the “ethnic cleansing” of a Muslim minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

“Treasury is sanctioning units and leaders overseeing this horrific behavior as part of a broader U.S. government strategy to hold accountable those responsible for such wide scale human suffering,” said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.