Sanction Qaddafi? How 5 nations have reacted to sanctions.

Burma (Myanmar)

The US has imposed sanctions on Burma since 1988, mostly in response to what it considers serious human rights and civil liberty violations by the Burmese military. The sanctions take a variety of forms: visa bans, bans on Burmese goods and investments, and limits on US assistance to the country, to name a few.

The European Union and a few non-European democracies have also imposed sanctions on Burma – and they aren’t working, according to an internal review by the EU that the Monitor obtained. The review found that “sanctions had failed to achieve their political goals” and were contributing to economic stagnation and poverty. It also found that limitations on humanitarian aid were hurting the rural poor, mostly, rather than those sanctions were meant to target.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a leading Burmese opposition leader recently released from house arrest, has publicly expressed her support for continued sanctions on Burma, putting her in conflict with other opposition parties who called for an end to them. They say that the sanctions impose too much of an economic burden on Burma, one of the poorest countries in Asia, the Monitor reported.

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