(B) each senior-ranking individual of such 
forces who failed to investigate human rights 
abuses allegedly committed by subordinates 
under the command of such individual, includ-
ing human rights abuses committed against the 
Rohingya minority population. 
(2) INCLUSIONS.—The list required by para-
graph (1) shall include all of the senior officials of 
the military and security forces of Burma in charge 
of each unit that was operational during the so- 
called ‘‘clearance operations’’ that began in October 
2016 or thereafter. 
(b) SANCTIONS.— 
(1) VISA BAN.—The Secretary of State shall 
deny a visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall exclude from the United States, any indi-
vidual included in the most recent list submitted 
pursuant to subsection (a)(1). 
(2) LIST OF SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATION-
ALS AND BLOCKED PERSONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall— 
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(i) determine whether the individuals 
specified in subparagraph (B) should be 
included on the SDN list; and 
(ii) submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report that includes, 
with respect to any individual specified in 
subparagraph (B) that the President deter-
mines should not be included on the SDN 
list, the justification for such determina-
tion. 
(B) INDIVIDUALS
SPECIFIED.—The indi-
viduals specified in this subparagraph are— 
(i) the head of each unit of the mili-
tary or security forces of Burma that was 
operational during the so-called ‘‘clearance 
operations’’ that began in October 2016 or 
thereafter, including— 
(I) Senior General Min Aung 
Hlaing; 
(II) 
Major 
General 
Maung 
Maung Soe; and 
(III) Major General Khin Maung 
Soe; and 
(ii) any senior official of the military 
or security forces of Burma for which 
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there are credible allegations that the offi-
cial has aided, participated, or is otherwise 
implicated in gross human rights abuses in 
Burma, including sexual and ethnic- or 
gender-based violence. 
(C) SDN LIST
DEFINED.—In this para-
graph, the term ‘‘SDN list’’ means the list of 
specially designated nationals and blocked per-
sons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets 
Control of the Department of the Treasury. 
(3) AUTHORITY
FOR
ADDITIONAL
FINANCIAL 
SANCTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury may 
prohibit or impose appropriate conditions on the 
opening or maintaining in the United States of a 
correspondent account or payable-through account 
by any financial institution or financial agency that 
is a United States person, for or on behalf of a for-
eign financial institution, if the Secretary determines 
that the account is knowingly used— 
(A) by a foreign financial institution that 
holds property or an interest in property of any 
individual included on the most recent list sub-
mitted pursuant to subsection (a); or 
(B) to conduct a transaction on behalf of 
any individual on that list. 
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(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
subsection may be construed to prohibit any contract 
or other financial transaction by a United States 
person with a credible nongovernmental humani-
tarian organization in Burma. 
(c) REMOVAL FROM LISTS.—The President may re-
move an individual from a list submitted pursuant to sub-
section (a), or remove an individual included on the SDN 
list pursuant to subsection (b)(2) from that list, if the 
President certifies to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees that— 
(1) the individual has— 
(A) publicly acknowledged the role of the 
individual in committing past human rights 
abuses; 
(B) cooperated with independent efforts to 
investigate such abuses; 
(C) been held accountable for such abuses; 
or 
(D) demonstrated substantial progress in 
reforming the individual’s behavior with respect 
to the protection of human rights in the con-
duct of civil-military relations; and 
(2) removing the individual from the list is in 
the vital national interest of the United States. 
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(d) PENALTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any person that violates, at-
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 
violation of this section or any regulation, license, or 
order issued to carry out paragraph (2) or (3) of 
subsection (b) shall be subject to the penalties set 
forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that 
commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) 
of that section. 
(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This subsection 
shall not be construed to require the President to 
declare a national emergency under section 202 of 
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1701). 
(e) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) HUMANITARIAN
ASSISTANCE.—A require-
ment to impose sanctions under this section shall 
not apply with respect to the provision of medicine, 
medical equipment or supplies, food, or any other 
form of humanitarian or human rights-related as-
sistance provided to Burma in response to a humani-
tarian crisis. 
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(2) UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS AGREE-
MENT.—Subsection (b)(1) shall not apply to the ad-
mission of an individual to the United States if such 
admission is necessary to comply with United States 
obligations under the Agreement between the United 
Nations and the United States of America regarding 
the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at 
Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force 
November 21, 1947, or under the Convention on 
Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, 
and entered into force March 19, 1967, or other 
international obligations of the United States. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ACCOUNT; CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT; PAY-
ABLE-THROUGH
ACCOUNT.—The terms ‘‘account’’, 
‘‘correspondent account’’, and ‘‘payable-through ac-
count’’ have the meanings given those terms in sec-
tion 5318A of title 31, United States Code. 
(2) FINANCIAL
AGENCY; FINANCIAL
INSTITU-
TION.—The terms ‘‘financial agency’’ and ‘‘financial 
institution’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
section 5312 of title 31, United States Code. 
(3) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
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(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or of any jurisdiction within 
the United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
SEC. 10. STRATEGY FOR PROMOTING ECONOMIC DEVELOP-
MENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development 
shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a strategy to provide United States assistance to 
support sustainable and broad-based economic develop-
ment, in accordance with the priorities of the elected civil-
ian Government of Burma to promote broad-based eco-
nomic development. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—In order to support the efforts of 
the Government of Burma for broad-based economic devel-
opment, the strategy required by subsection (a) shall in-
clude a plan to promote inclusive and responsible economic 
growth, including through the following initiatives: 
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(1) Develop an economic reform road map to 
diversify control over and access to participation in 
key industries and sectors. 
(2) Increase transparency disclosure require-
ments in key sectors to promote responsible invest-
ment. Provide technical support to develop and im-
plement policies, and revise existing Burmese poli-
cies on public disclosure of beneficial owners of com-
panies in key sectors identified by the Government 
of Burma, including the identities of those seeking 
or securing access to Burma’s most valuable re-
sources. Such new requirements should complement 
disclosures due to be put in place in Burma as a re-
sult of its participation in the global Extractives In-
dustry Transparency Initiative. 
SEC. 11. REPORT ON ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ETHNIC 
CLEANSING, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, 
AND GENOCIDE IN BURMA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on allegations of ethnic cleansing, crimes against 
humanity, and genocide, and on potential transitional jus-
tice mechanisms in Burma. 
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(b) ELEMENTS.—The reports required under sub-
section (a) shall include— 
(1) a description of alleged ethnic cleaning, 
crimes against humanity, including the crime of 
apartheid, and genocide perpetrated against the 
Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma, including— 
(A) incidents that may constitute ethnic 
cleansing, crimes against humanity, and geno-
cide committed by the Burmese military, and 
other actors involved in the violence; 
(B) the role of the civilian government in 
the commission of such activities; 
(C) incidents that may constitute ethnic 
cleansing, crimes against humanity, or genocide 
committed by violent extremist groups or anti- 
government forces; 
(D) any incidents that may violate the 
principle of medical neutrality and, to the ex-
tent possible, the identities of any individuals 
who engaged in or organized such incidents; 
and 
(E) to the extent possible, a description of 
the conventional and unconventional weapons 
used for such crimes and the sources of such 
weapons; 
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(2) a description and assessment by the Depart-
ment of State, the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Department of Justice, 
and other appropriate Federal departments and 
agencies of programs that the United States has al-
ready or is planning to undertake to ensure account-
ability for ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, 
and genocide perpetrated against the Rohingya by 
the Government, security forces, and military of 
Burma, violent extremist groups, and other combat-
ants involved in the conflict, including programs 
to— 
(A) train civilian investigators within and 
outside of Burma and Bangladesh on how to 
document, investigate, develop findings of, and 
identify and locate alleged perpetrators of eth-
nic cleansing, crimes against humanity, or 
genocide in Burma; 
(B) promote and prepare for a transitional 
justice process or processes for the perpetrators 
of ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, 
and genocide occurring in the state of Rakhine 
in 2017; and 
(C) document, collect, preserve, and pro-
tect evidence of ethnic cleansing, crimes against 
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humanity, and genocide in Burma, including by 
providing 
support 
for 
Burmese 
and 
Bangladeshi, foreign, and international non-
governmental organizations, United Nations 
Human Rights Council’s investigative team, 
and other entities engaged in such activities; 
and 
(3) a detailed study of the feasibility and desir-
ability of potential transitional justice mechanisms 
for Burma, including a hybrid tribunal, to address 
ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and geno-
cide perpetrated in Burma, including recommenda-
tions on which transitional justice mechanisms the 
United States should support, why such mechanisms 
should be supported, and what type of support 
should be offered. 
(c) PROTECTION OF WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE.— 
The Secretary shall take due care to ensure that the iden-
tification of witnesses and physical evidence are not pub-
licly disclosed in a manner that might place such persons 
at risk of harm or encourage the destruction of evidence 
by the Government of Burma. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL AS-
SISTANCE.— 
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