Senators urge Biden to impose more sanctions on Myanmar junta


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO Senator Marco Rubio R-FL speaks during a Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the nomination of Former Senator Bill Nelson to be NASA administrator on Capitol Hill in Washington U.S. April 21 2021. Graeme JenningsPool via REUTERSFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on the nomination of Former Senator Bill Nelson to be NASA administrator, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2021. Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to slap more sanctions on the military junta in Myanmar, including choking revenues to a state energy company, in response to its coup and violent crackdown on protesters.

Senators Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican, and four others urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a letter to "explore new avenues to support the people of Burma in their ongoing struggle for democracy in the face of escalating crimes against humanity."

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