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Sanctions against Myanmar's junta have been tried before. Can they work this time?

  • Written by Htwe Htwe Thein, Associate professor, Curtin University
Sanctions against Myanmar's junta have been tried before. Can they work this time?STRINGER/EPA

Myanmar’s democracy movement wants the international community to get tough on the military junta. But if history is any indicator, that’s not going to happen.

Western nations have responded with suspending arms sales and “targeted sanctions” aimed at hurting individual members of the military elite. But for...

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