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Donald Trump declares ‘National Emergency’ right before Christmas

December 24, 2017

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President Donald Trump took a strong stand against the perpetrators of global human rights abuses and corruption on Thursday by issuing an executive order declaring a national emergency targeting the financial assets of 13 criminal offenders.

In a special letter to Congress explaining why he took such extraordinary measures, Trump argued that the sanctioned parties “threaten the stability of international political and economic systems” and “undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies.”

Dirty Baker’s Dozen

The 13 people listed on the president’s executive order are among the most nefarious criminal villains of the modern era, responsible for such heinous acts as ethnic cleansing, wholesale corruption and political sabotage.

In total, 39 entities were targeted under the auspices of the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act, a law passed by Congress which allows the executive branch to issue visa bans and personalized sanctions against some of the most brutal human rights offenders or particularly egregious arbiters of corruption.

Take, for instance, Myanmar army Gen. Maung Maung Soe, accused of committing ethnic cleansing against his country’s minority Rohingya Muslim population.

The U.S. Treasury Department claims to possess “credible evidence of Maung Maung Soe’s activities, including allegations against Burmese security forces of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and arbitrary arrest as well as the widespread burning of villages.”

In response to a Rohingya insurgency, the Myanmar army launched “clearance operations” under the guidance of the general which resulted in 6,700 Rohingyas killed in the first month alone, in addition to mass rapes, organized executions and burning children alive. More than 640,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar since the genocide began this summer.

President Trump’s original “travel ban” executive order contained a subsection that specifically privileged “religious minorities” like Myanmar’s Rohingyas and granted them priority access to the U.S. refugee program. However, 9th Circuit justices who eventually killed the order cited this directive as religious discrimination.

Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was also singled out as a “bad actor” by the Department of Treasury freeze. Jammeh organized a terror and assassination hit squad known as The Junglers and order the group to threaten, kill and terrorize his political enemies.

Among those victims unfortunate enough to cross Jammeh precipitate their own murder were a journalist, a local religious leader and members of the political opposition. Jammeh was defeated in Gambia’s 2016 elections, and after his attempt to annul the results failed, he fled to Equatorial Guinea.

High crimes

The president’s latest executive order singles out individuals responsible for significant acts of corruption, as well. Included among these sanctioned criminal masterminds is Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.

According the the Uzbek Prosecutor General’s Office, Karimova lorded over a criminal enterprise with assets exceeding $1.3 billion. She illegally sold radio frequencies and land parcels, siphoned state funds through fraudulent means and laundered the profits back through her own accounts.