{"id":22872,"date":"2020-09-20T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/20\/justice-and-the-rohingya-people-are-the-losers-in-asias-new-cold-war"},"modified":"2020-09-20T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:29:38","slug":"justice-and-the-rohingya-people-are-the-losers-in-asias-new-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22872","title":{"rendered":"Justice and the Rohingya people are the losers in Asia&#8217;s new cold war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks against the Muslim minority in Myanmar have gone unchecked as regional players focus on their own interests<\/p>\n<p>The persecution, ethnic cleansing, and attempted genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state is an affront to the rule of law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyi-court-hague-genocide-hearing-myanmar-rohingya\" title=\"\">a well-documented atrocity<\/a> and, according to a top international lawyer, a moral stain on \u201cour collective conscience and humanity\u201d. So why are the killings and other horrors continuing while known perpetrators go unpunished?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a question with several possible answers. Maybe poor, isolated Myanmar, formerly Burma, is not important enough a state to warrant sustained international attention. Perhaps, in the western subconscious, the lives of a largely unseen, unknown, brown-skinned Muslim minority do not matter so much at a time of multiple racial, ethnic and refugee crises.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/20\/justice-and-the-rohingya-people-are-the-losers-in-asias-new-cold-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks against the Muslim minority in Myanmar have gone unchecked as regional players focus on their own interestsThe persecution, ethnic cleansing, and attempted genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state is an affront to the rule of law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[41,919,50,221,53,447,82,494,371,85,61,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-china","category-europe","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-religion","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-crimes","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\/22872","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22873,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22872\/revisions\/22873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}