{"id":12097,"date":"2019-12-13T03:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-myanmar-and-genocide-humanity-on-trial"},"modified":"2019-12-13T03:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:41:23","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-myanmar-and-genocide-humanity-on-trial-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12097","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Myanmar and genocide: humanity on trial | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya Muslims<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s decision to personally defend Myanmar in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/myanmar-military-incapable-of-looking-into-abuses-court-told\" title=\"\">genocide case<\/a> at the international court of justice this week has torn away any scant remaining shreds of moral credibility from the figure once lauded as a champion of democracy and the fight against oppression. Yet what is at stake is far more than one woman\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is this even about the six military leaders \u2013 including the commander in chief \u2013 who UN-appointed investigators last year <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2018\/08\/1017802\" title=\"\">said<\/a> should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/27\/myanmars-military-accused-of-genocide-by-damning-un-report\" title=\"\">prosecuted<\/a> for the \u201cgravest\u201d crimes against civilians, including genocide. This is about the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state forced to flee to Bangladesh since late 2016, the 10,000 who UN investigators believe may have died in the crackdown, and the 600,000 still living in apartheid conditions, denied basic rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-myanmar-and-genocide-humanity-on-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya MuslimsAung San Suu Kyi\u2019s decision to personally defend Myanmar in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[919,53,908,447,86,82,371,85,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-human-rights","category-international-court-of-justice","category-islam","category-law","category-myanmar","category-religion","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","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\/12097","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}