{"id":14775,"date":"2020-02-21T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/australian-ambassador-meets-with-myanmar-military-chief-accused-of-rohingya-genocide"},"modified":"2020-02-21T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:30:30","slug":"australian-ambassador-meets-with-myanmar-military-chief-accused-of-rohingya-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14775","title":{"rendered":"Australian ambassador meets with Myanmar military chief accused of Rohingya genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Australia accused of giving legitimacy and credibility to a military accused of mass atrocities<\/p>\n<p>The commander-in-chief of Myanmar\u2019s defence forces \u2013 recommended by the UN for investigation and prosecution for war crimes and genocide \u2013 has met with Australia\u2019s ambassador and says he wants to train more of his officers in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is the supreme commander of Myanmar\u2019s military, known as the Tatmadaw, which has been accused of genocide in its systematic persecution of the ethnic and religious minority Rohingya.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/australian-ambassador-meets-with-myanmar-military-chief-accused-of-rohingya-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Australia accused of giving legitimacy and credibility to a military accused of mass atrocitiesThe commander-in-chief of Myanmar\u2019s defence forces \u2013 recommended by the UN for investigation and prosecution for war crimes and genocide \u2013 has met&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[43,324,534,53,82,85,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-coalition","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions\/14776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}