{"id":22618,"date":"2020-09-10T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/10\/amnesty-investigation-links-brewer-kirin-to-myanmar-military-crimes"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:39:51","slug":"amnesty-investigation-links-brewer-kirin-to-myanmar-military-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22618","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty investigation links brewer Kirin to Myanmar military crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billions in dividends from ventures with conglomerate MEHL funnelled to army units implicated in Rohingya crackdown<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest brewers, Kirin \u2013 whose subsidiaries include San Miguel and craft beers brewed in the US and UK \u2013 has been linked to crimes committed by the Myanmar military following an Amnesty International investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Kirin is partnered with a Myanmar-based conglomerate with interests in mining, beer, tobacco, garment manufacturing and banking, whose shareholders include military units directly implicated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/myanmar-soldiers-tell-of-rohingya-killings-rapes-and-mass-burials\">serious human rights crimes<\/a> against Rohingya people, analysis by the human rights group found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/10\/amnesty-investigation-links-brewer-kirin-to-myanmar-military-crimes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions in dividends from ventures with conglomerate MEHL funnelled to army units implicated in Rohingya crackdownOne of the world\u2019s largest brewers, Kirin \u2013 whose subsidiaries include San Miguel and craft beers brewed in the US and UK \u2013 has been link&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"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":[205,6,1672,59,53,82,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-business","category-deloitte","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","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\/22618","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\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618\/revisions\/22619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}