BRUSSELS—The European Union will extend its arms embargo on Burma for another year this week and may then move to target more Yangon generals with fresh sanctions, EU diplomats and officials said.
Burma has been accused by the United Nations, EU and United States of serious human rights violations and ethnic cleansing following a military operation in the country’s northwest last year that sent nearly 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh. It was triggered by an attack on 30 government posts across the Rakhine state by insurgents of the Muslim Rohingya minority under the banner of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). Yangon rejects these accusations.
