Several of their companies were also designated
(Source: MgHla (aka) Htin Linn Aye, via Wikimedia Commons)
By Samuel Rubenfeld, Edmund Xu and Helen Koo
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Two adult children of Min Aung Hlaing, the Burmese military commander-in-chief who led the February coup, were sanctioned by the U.S., along with six companies they own or control.
An executive order issued by the White House following the coup explicitly authorized sanctions on the adult children of designated Burmese military leaders and officials. Min Aung Hlaing, sanctioned by the U.S. for leading the coup, had also previously been designated for human rights abuses tied to the military’s mass killing of Rohingya and other Burmese minorities.
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