{"id":11103,"date":"2019-11-15T03:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/war-crimes-judges-approve-investigation-violence-against-rohingya-icc-myammar"},"modified":"2019-11-15T03:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:51:52","slug":"war-crimes-court-approves-inquiry-into-violence-against-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11103","title":{"rendered":"War crimes court approves inquiry into violence against Rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar is accused of mass persecution and \u2018ongoing genocide\u2019 of Muslim minority<\/p>\n<p>Judges at the international criminal court (ICC) have authorised a full-scale investigation into allegations of mass persecution and crimes against humanity that forced at least 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which sets a significant precedent in expanding the jurisdiction of the war crimes court, is the second move against Myanmar this week at international tribunals in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/war-crimes-judges-approve-investigation-violence-against-rohingya-icc-myammar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar is accused of mass persecution and \u2018ongoing genocide\u2019 of Muslim minorityJudges at the international criminal court (ICC) have authorised a full-scale investigation into allegations of mass persecution and crimes against humanity that forced at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[927,734,86,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-law","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions\/11105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}