YANGON - Since a brutal military crackdown caused over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee Myanmar, the United States, European Union and Canada have imposed sanctions on military officers deemed responsible for the atrocities.
But none of these sanctions applied to Myanmar's commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, now locked in an awkward embrace with the civilian government via a Constitution designed to retain the military's broad influence within an electoral democracy.
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