{"id":28453,"date":"2021-02-14T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/14\/we-cannot-hope-for-anything-good-myanmar-coup-sparks-despair-for-rohingya"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:00:36","slug":"we-cannot-hope-for-anything-good-myanmar-coup-sparks-despair-for-rohingya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28453","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We cannot hope for anything good\u2019: Myanmar coup sparks despair for Rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Aung San Suu Kyi defended a genocidal campaign against the Muslim minority, refugees fear military rule will end dreams of a return home<\/p>\n<p>For the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, news of the fall of Aung San Suu Kyi after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/08\/protest-myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-third-day-coup-spread\" title=\"\">military coup<\/a> was bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p>After all, no community had felt more betrayed by Myanmar\u2019s civilian leader. When she came to power in 2015, the belief was that she would overturn decades of persecution and finally bring about peace and citizenship, following in the footsteps of her father, Gen Aung San.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/14\/we-cannot-hope-for-anything-good-myanmar-coup-sparks-despair-for-rohingya\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Aung San Suu Kyi defended a genocidal campaign against the Muslim minority, refugees fear military rule will end dreams of a return homeFor the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, news of the fall of Aung San Suu Kyi after the military coup was bittersw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"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":[919,59,82,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-global-development","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\/28453","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\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28455,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28453\/revisions\/28455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}