Within hours of the EU’s sanction announcement, the Myanmar military announced that one of the generals had been fired on Monday and another had left the army last month after being removed from his post.
Earlier on Monday, the European Union (EU) and Canada imposed sanctions on seven senior military officials from Myanmar, including the general in charge of an operation accused of driving more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, as per bdnews24 report.
The EU sanctions, first reported by Reuters in April, also mark a shift in diplomacy by the European bloc, which suspended its restrictive measures on Myanmar in 2012 to support its partial shift to democratic governance in recent years.
The crackdown on the Rohingya in northwestern Rakhine State, which the United Nations denounced as "ethnic cleansing" by the military, has soured relations.
