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Bill Huizenga: “The jet fuel industry in Burma is a key and important target…”

Featuring: Bill Huizenga, Republican | U.S. House Michigan, District 4

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Huizenga Delivers Unanimous Vote in U.S. House to Sanction Military Junta in Burma

Published | Video Starts at 02:24

Second, the state owned Myanmar Economic bank, also known as the meb, which is operated by junta cronies and processes weapons transactions contrary to those sanctions. Third, any person operating in the jet fuel sector of the Burmese economy, The jet fuel industry in Burma is a key and important target for sanctions because it directly enables the Junta's unlawful airstrikes against civilians. places of worship, villages, hospitals, IDP camps and schools. Depleting the government's ability to control and profit from aviation fuel imports and distribution will inhibit the Junta's AB to sustain violence and commit war crimes using air power. (02:24–02:35)

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Asserts that Burma's jet fuel industry enables the junta's airstrikes against civilians.

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