US travel ban on Myanmar army chief not enough, says UN

KUALA LUMPUR: A US travel ban on Myanmar's army chief and three other top officers for their role in orchestrating a crackdown against Rohingya Muslims does not go far enough, a UN rights investigator said on Thursday .were the strongest censure yet from a Western power since the army launched its offensive against the stateless minority in August 2017 following attacks on police posts.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that US sanctions against Myanmar's top generals did not go far enough. Lee, during a visit to Malaysia, criticised the sanctions as unrealistic, saying that the officers were unlikely to travel to the US anyway.Washington should go further by seizing their assets, and those of their families, and extending the sanctions to cover other senior commanders, she said.

The US, Canada and the European Union have previously passed sanctions against members of the powerful military, but stopped short of reaching the very top of leadership.

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