{"id":34821,"date":"2021-08-05T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/myanmars-un-envoy-accuses-regime-of-township-massacre"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:33:28","slug":"myanmars-un-envoy-accuses-military-junta-of-township-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34821","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s UN envoy accuses military junta of township massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyaw Moe Tun, who has defied regime attempts to sack him, tells UN it must take action over killings in remote Sagaing area<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, who has refused to leave his post despite being fired by the junta after the February coup, has alerted the world body to a \u201creported massacre\u201d by the military.<\/p>\n<p>Kyaw Moe Tun sent a letter to the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, on Tuesday saying 40 bodies had been found in July in the Sagaing area of north-western Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/myanmars-un-envoy-accuses-regime-of-township-massacre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyaw Moe Tun, who has defied regime attempts to sack him, tells UN it must take action over killings in remote Sagaing areaMyanmar\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, who has refused to leave his post despite being fired by the junta after the February&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[504,82,1906,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34821","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34821\/revisions\/34822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}