{"id":42760,"date":"2022-03-22T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/rohingya-refugees-welcome-us-decision-to-call-myanmar-atrocities-a-genocide"},"modified":"2022-03-23T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:09:51","slug":"rohingya-refugees-welcome-us-decision-to-call-myanmar-atrocities-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42760","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya refugees welcome US decision to call Myanmar atrocities a genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees \u2018very happy\u2019 with declaration, while experts say \u2018concrete steps\u2019 must follow<\/p>\n<p>Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/21\/us-to-declare-myanmar-army-committed-genocide-against-rohingya\">announcement by the US<\/a> that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy on the declaration of the genocide; many many thanks,\u201d said 60-year-old Sala Uddin, who lives at Kutupalong camp, one of the many in Cox\u2019s Bazar district that are now home to about 1 million Rohingya.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/rohingya-refugees-welcome-us-decision-to-call-myanmar-atrocities-a-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees \u2018very happy\u2019 with declaration, while experts say \u2018concrete steps\u2019 must followRohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed the announcement by the US that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a ge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[327,82,85,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-myanmar","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/42760","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42768,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42760\/revisions\/42768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}