Bangladesh Calls for Financial Sanctions on Myanmar, as Country Pushes for Rohingya Repatriation
Published on: Friday 19 July 2019
Bangladesh wants Myanmar to repatriate the nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees who have fled genocide, and a top Bangladeshi official wants international financial sanctions to back it up.
Much of the Muslim-majority ethnic group has fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar’s latest brutal crackdown in 2017, which included mass killings, sexual assaults and arson.
News source: https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/bangladesh-calls-financial-sanctions-myanmar-country-pushes-rohingya
