美国参院参议员要求特朗普就罗兴亚危机考虑制裁措施

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美国参院参议员要求特朗普就罗兴亚危机考虑制裁措施
US senators urge Trump administration to consider sanctions over Rakhine
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北美汉风

美国参议院议员已呼吁政府特朗普考虑在若开邦的危机对缅甸实施制裁，华盛顿邮报9月28日。100名成员组成的参议院中有21名共和党和民主党议员致信国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森，警告对罗兴亚种穆斯林进行族灭绝的风险。两位参议员说，由8月25日在若开邦北部伊斯兰武装分子袭击的军事反应是“极不相称”。

信中敦促特朗普政府要让那些在若开施暴屠杀的人在国际法和美国法律下承担一切后果，允许总统强制制裁那些在任何国家参与酷刑折磨、屠杀、粗暴违反人权的责任人肇事者。

华盛顿邮报道，该信称“这场危机将给缅甸、该地区和世界产生带来深远的后果”，美联社也收到该信的复印件。

该报说，参议员也呼吁缅甸允许国际人道组织在若开邦北部开展工作，以便美国提供更多的援助，帮助孟加拉国应对来自若开邦的50万穆斯林难民的大量涌入.......

Members of the United States Senate have called on the Trump administration to consider imposing sanctions on Myanmar over the crisis in Rakhine, the Washington Post reported on September 28.

It said 21 Republicans and Democrats in the 100-member Senate made the request in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that warned of the risk of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.

The senators said the military response to attacks by Islamic militants in northern Rakhine on August 25 had been “extraordinarily disproportionate”.
The letter urges the Trump administration to hold the perpetrators of atrocities in Rakhine accountable under international and US law that allows the president to impose sanctions on individuals responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture and other gross violations of human rights in any foreign country.

“Unless immediately addressed, this crisis will have profound long-term consequences for Burma, the region, and the world,” says the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press, the Washington Post reported.

The senators also called for Myanmar to allow international humanitarian groups to operate in northern Rakhine and for the US to provide more aid as Bangladesh struggles to cope with an influx of about 500,000 Muslims from Rakhine, the newspaper said.

Among those who signed the letter were Mr Ben Cardin, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mr John McCain, Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who on September 12 abandoned plans to support expanded US military ties with the Tatmadaw because of the crisis.

“We need to put as much pressure as possible on the Burmese government. They’re responsible for what’s happening, and they know that,” Cardin told reporters on September 27, the Washington Post reported. He said the US needed to send a clear message that it could revert to its former policy of imposing sanctions on Myanmar.

Most sanctions were lifted after the country began the transition to democracy in 2011, though the US and the European Union have retained arms embargos against Myanmar.

In a related development, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Ms Nikki Haley, has called on countries that sell weapons to Myanmar to suspend deliveries until the Tatmadaw is more accountable.

"We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese authorities what they appear to be – a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority," Haley told the UN Security Council on September 28.

“It should shame senior Burmese leaders who have sacrificed so much for an open, democratic Burma,” she said.

National security adviser U Thaung Tun said at the UN on September 28 that there was no ethnic cleansing or genocide taking place in Myanmar, Reuters reported.

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美国人能做的不会很多。昨天有位网友说希望“西方出兵”，以本人的认识看，不要想的太多了。美国人没有精力顾上缅甸的事。朝鲜还在叫板着呢。奥巴马在任上时就信誓旦旦：再搞一次核试一定白刀子进、红刀子出。到现在核试了N次，氢弹搞成了，远程运载工具同样搞成了。美国能怎样？打呀！咋不打了？罗兴亚事件与朝核谁更让美国人头痛？——所以说，制裁是西方人目前唯一能做的实质惩罚缅甸人的手段。颠覆、怂恿缅甸一些人闹事，对缅甸政府来说，已经见怪不怪了。