TOKYO: Japan should sanction Myanmar as it has done for Russia over its Ukraine invasion, a United Nations expert said on Thursday (Apr 27), slamming the junta's 'barbarism and oppression'. Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, also urged Japan to immediately end a training
The defence ministry said in September it would not accept new recruits into a programme that trains Myanmar military personnel.
"They are receiving combat training and learning how to be effective soldiers and commanders" and will return"to a military responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes", he said. Andrews said he had urged Japan to redirect money that would have gone into new aid programmes toward funding food rations for Rohingya refugees in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Food rations were already cut by 17 per cent last month, but now face being reduced an additional 20 per cent, Andrews said, risking"irreparable harm to Rohingya children".
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