{"id":41870,"date":"2022-02-21T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/myanmar-junta-to-take-place-of-suu-kyi-at-icj-hearings-into-rohingya-genocide-claims"},"modified":"2022-02-22T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:14:40","slug":"myanmar-junta-to-take-place-of-suu-kyi-at-icj-hearings-into-rohingya-genocide-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41870","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta takes place of Aung San Suu Kyi at Rohingya hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military, which seized power in February 2021, seeks to throw out UN case alleging it committed genocide<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military junta has appeared in place of the detained Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN\u2019s top court, where it sought to throw out a case alleging that it committed genocide against the country\u2019s Rohingya minority.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow the junta to represent the country in court, after it seized power in a coup last year, was strongly criticised by advocacy groups and a former UN special rapporteur, who warned that it risked delaying justice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/myanmar-junta-to-take-place-of-suu-kyi-at-icj-hearings-into-rohingya-genocide-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military, which seized power in February 2021, seeks to throw out UN case alleging it committed genocideMyanmar\u2019s military junta has appeared in place of the detained Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN\u2019s top court, where it sought to throw out a case alleging &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[919,908,86,82,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-international-court-of-justice","category-law","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\/41870","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41883,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41870\/revisions\/41883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}