Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00:19 PM
U.S. Pulls Military Assistance to Myanmar Over Rohingya Abuses
"Rohingya crisis: Drone shows huge refugee camps - BBC News"
But experts say the measures will have limited effect and could even backfire.
By Martin de Bourmont | October 24, 2017, 1:58 PM
Members of a Myanmar military honor guard raise their bayonet-mounted rifles in a salute during a dawn flag-raising ceremony at Yangon's central Mahabandoola Park on Jan. 4. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
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Derek Mitchell, a former U.S. ambassador to Myanmar, said that ending the limited U.S. military assistance could make it harder to curb abuses.
“The only way you can really have leverage on the military is to do something with them, and the only way to really change or hope to change their ways is to engage them and show them different ways and show them different tactics,” he said.
Ultimately, as the United States looks for a way to aid the beleaguered Rohingya, reaching for sanctions may not be the best approach, Mitchell said. He called for an independent investigation to determine who was responsible for the alleged human rights violations.
“You don’t get solutions by sanctions. You get their attention, but the question is how you are going to get both justice for what’s happened as well as justice for the Rohingya. That should be the focus,” he said.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/24/u-s-pulls-military-assistance-to-myanmar-over-rohingya-abuses/
"Rohingya crisis: Drone shows huge refugee camps - BBC News"
But experts say the measures will have limited effect and could even backfire.
By Martin de Bourmont | October 24, 2017, 1:58 PM
Members of a Myanmar military honor guard raise their bayonet-mounted rifles in a salute during a dawn flag-raising ceremony at Yangon's central Mahabandoola Park on Jan. 4. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
[...]
Derek Mitchell, a former U.S. ambassador to Myanmar, said that ending the limited U.S. military assistance could make it harder to curb abuses.
“The only way you can really have leverage on the military is to do something with them, and the only way to really change or hope to change their ways is to engage them and show them different ways and show them different tactics,” he said.
Ultimately, as the United States looks for a way to aid the beleaguered Rohingya, reaching for sanctions may not be the best approach, Mitchell said. He called for an independent investigation to determine who was responsible for the alleged human rights violations.
“You don’t get solutions by sanctions. You get their attention, but the question is how you are going to get both justice for what’s happened as well as justice for the Rohingya. That should be the focus,” he said.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/24/u-s-pulls-military-assistance-to-myanmar-over-rohingya-abuses/
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