US won’t say whether considering sanctions against Myanmar

‘The United States has expressed concerns about the deadly violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar but refused to address calls for international sanctions against the country.
“We don’t want to get ahead of the conversations that we’re having,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters in Washington, DC, on Thursday.
Myanmar’s security forces and armed Buddhist militants have been carrying out atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region in Myanmar for several months.
According to multiple reports, entire villages of Rohingya Muslims have been burnt to the ground. A large number of Muslims, including women and children, have been burnt alive, lynched to death or lost their lives while fleeing the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people.
The State Department spokeswoman on Thursday urged Myanmar’s authorities to allow humanitarian access to Rakhine state but said US officials could not find the reports of state-sponsored massacres credible.’
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