The United States on Friday slapped sanctions on four Myanmar security officials and two of the country’s military units for human rights abuses, including ethnic cleansing against the country's minority Muslim Rohingya population.

The announcement from the Treasury Department comes almost exactly a year after a deadly Myanmar military crackdown forced some 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is currently deliberating on whether to declare what happened to the Rohingya a genocide. The announcement also follows months of administration debate over how much to punish Myanmar, also known as Burma, where the U.S. has tried to nurture democratic reforms.

The sanctions were levied in part under the Global Magnitsky Act, which gives U.S. officials broad authority to target people for human rights abuses. U.S. officials noted the case of the Rohingya, but they also pointed out that Myanmar’s military leaders have waged violence against other minority groups, including those in Kachin and Shan states.