Myanmar sanctions

According to the environmental advocacy group Forest Trends, much more can be done to strangle the junta's access to natural resource revenues.

Whether or not direct military aid would help, Western governments should recognize that there is no going back to the status quo ante.

The coordinated move follows a series of recent convictions against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Bank estimates that Myanmar's economy is 30 percent smaller than it would have been were it not for the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The move could suggest the impending imposition of economic sanctions on the country's state oil and gas enterprise.

The shift is a major breakthrough for activists seeking to strangle the military government's main source of revenue.

The February coup has rapidly unwound a decade of economic progress, while foreign investors are headed for the exits.

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To compel the military to change, Western governments need to go after the income that helps sustain it.

The announcement followed reports that security forces killed at least 25 people in central Myanmar.