{"id":15624,"date":"2020-03-10T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/horrific-viral-video-reveals-crisis-of-school-bullying-in-fiji"},"modified":"2020-03-10T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T02:03:38","slug":"horrific-viral-video-reveals-crisis-of-school-bullying-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15624","title":{"rendered":"Horrific viral video reveals &#8216;crisis&#8217; of school bullying in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the alleged assault caused a national uproar and points to deeper problem with violence in Pacific nation, say experts<\/p>\n<p>A horrific video of high school students beating a classmate that went viral in Fiji last week has prompted calls for a national inquiry into what is being dubbed a \u201ccrisis\u201d of bullying in schools in the Pacific nation.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition MPs, civil society organisations and experts are calling for an inquiry into what they claim is a \u201cphenomenal\u201d level of violence in schools, which some claim reflects a broader problem of violence in the country including high rates of domestic violence, police abuse and a \u201ccoup culture\u201d in politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/horrific-viral-video-reveals-crisis-of-school-bullying-in-fiji\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the alleged assault caused a national uproar and points to deeper problem with violence in Pacific nation, say expertsA horrific video of high school students beating a classmate that went viral in Fiji last week has prompted calls for a natio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/15624","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\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15625,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions\/15625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}