The United States Treasury Department has imposed additional sanctions on top military officials for alleged human rights abuses.

The move coincides with the three-day hearing against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice. The sanctions blacklist Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win, Major General Than Oo and Maj-Gen Aung Aung, the US Treasury Department said in a statement on December 10th, which marks International Human Rights Day.

“Today’s action supports U.S. efforts to support Burma’s democratic transition, civilian-led economic reform, and civilian control of the military,” the statement said.

The Treasury Department explained its motives for the sanctions against each of the military officials, detailing their roles in the 2017 clearance operations that pushed around 750,000 Rakhine Muslims, who call themselves Rohingyas, across the western border to Bangladesh. A United Nations fact-finding mission labeled the operation “genocide” and called for a global boycott against the many businesses associated with the Myanmar military. But both the military and civilian government have denied those claims. When the statement was released, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was in the Hague defending Myanmar before the International Court of Justice.

The United States has taken the side of the UN fact-finding mission. “There are credible claims of mass-scale rape and other forms of sexual violence committed by soldiers under Min Aung Hlaing’s command,” the statement said of Myanmar’s top military official.