标题: 美国谴责缅甸的“暴行”，出台新制裁 [打印本页] 作者: 北美汉风 时间: 2017-10-25 20:10 标题: 美国谴责缅甸的“暴行”，出台新制裁 美国谴责缅甸的“暴行”，出台新制裁
U.S. Condemns `Atrocities' in Myanmar as New Sanctions Weighed by Jason Koutsoukis和Kyaw Thu
2017年10月23日GMT-4下午10:33 2017年10月24日GMT-4下午3:47北美汉风译
The U.S. is considering new sanctions on Myanmar after a million Rohingya Muslims fled the Southeast Asian nation’s Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh in what a State Department official called a crisis of “epic proportions.”
“There’s no question in our minds that atrocities have been committed,” Patrick Murphy, deputy assistant secretary of state for southeast Asia, told reporters in Washington Tuesday, a day after the U.S. disclosed that it has barred visits by current and former Myanmar military officials.
While human rights groups have described the treatment of the Rohingya in mostly Buddhist Myanmar as crimes against humanity and the United Nations’ top human rights official has called it “ethnic cleansing,” Murphy sidestepped those descriptions, saying “the terminology is really not an issue for us.”
The latest tensions were sparked on Aug. 25 when militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked 25 police and army posts, killing a dozen security officials in the eastern state of Rakhine. The military responded with what it calls “clearance operations.” There have been reports of security forces and Buddhist vigilantes indiscriminately attacking Muslims in the state and burning their villages.
