{"id":37227,"date":"2021-09-23T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/23\/thousands-of-civilians-flee-myanmar-town-after-military-clash-with-rebels"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:49:15","slug":"thousands-of-civilians-flee-myanmar-town-after-military-clash-with-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37227","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest, says UN expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special rapporteur says children as young as 20 weeks old are being seized by military in bid to force suspects to hand themselves in <\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including children as young as 20 weeks old, according the UN special rapporteur for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Andrews told the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday that conditions in the country have continued to deteriorate and that \u201ccurrent efforts by the international community to stop the downward spiral of events in Myanmar are simply not working\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/23\/thousands-of-civilians-flee-myanmar-town-after-military-clash-with-rebels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special rapporteur says children as young as 20 weeks old are being seized by military in bid to force suspects to hand themselves in Myanmar\u2019s military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including childr&#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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","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\/37227","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=37227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37227\/revisions\/37236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}