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Aung Thaung Blacklisted for Links to Anti-Muslim Violence: Analysts
KYAW HSU MON
Monday, November 3, 2014
Aung Thaung (with glasses) sits next to Aung San Suu Kyi at a meeting in Rangoon last year.
(Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy)
RANGOON US sanctions list on suspicions of supporting the anti-Muslim violence that has rocked Burma in recent years, but they note that the move is mostly meant as a symbolic warning to the government not to slow down the reforms.
Aung Thaung, a Lower House member for the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), was a general and minister of industry in the former junta. He is seen as a hardliner and he and his sons have used their close connections to former dictator Snr-Gen Than Shwe one news reportAung Thaung denied any involvement with the 969 movementUS Listing Impact on Reforms?
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