{"id":17699,"date":"2020-04-29T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/myanmar-military-may-be-repeating-crimes-against-humanity-un-rapporteur-warns"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:01:08","slug":"myanmar-military-may-be-repeating-crimes-against-humanity-un-rapporteur-warns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17699","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military may be repeating crimes against humanity, UN rapporteur warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yanghee Lee says the army is \u2018maximising suffering\u2019 on Rohingya and other people in attacks reminiscent of the 2017 assault in Rakhine state<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military may once again be committing crimes against humanity in Rakhine state, the UN special rapporteur on human rights has warned, urging the international community to prevent further atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>In a damning statement issued on Wednesday, Yanghee Lee said the military was inflicting immense suffering on communities living in conflict-affected states, and called for increased efforts to \u201censure that there is not another systemic failure like in 2017\u201d. The military had also expanded its campaign against minorities from Rakhine to neighbouring Chin state, she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/myanmar-military-may-be-repeating-crimes-against-humanity-un-rapporteur-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanghee Lee says the army is \u2018maximising suffering\u2019 on Rohingya and other people in attacks reminiscent of the 2017 assault in Rakhine stateMyanmar\u2019s military may once again be committing crimes against humanity in Rakhine state, the UN special rapport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"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":[82,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699","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\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17701,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}