{"id":45433,"date":"2022-06-14T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/14\/myanmar-junta-accused-of-relentless-attacks-on-children"},"modified":"2022-06-14T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:38:53","slug":"myanmar-junta-accused-of-relentless-attacks-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45433","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta accused of \u2018relentless attacks\u2019 on children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN expert says minors have been beaten and forced to endure mock executions<\/p>\n<p>Scores of children have been killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a> since last year\u2019s coup, not just in the crossfire of conflict but as deliberate targets of a military willing to inflict immense suffering, a United Nations expert said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Minors had been beaten and stabbed and had fingernails or teeth removed during interrogation, while some were made to endure mock executions, according to a report from UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/14\/myanmar-junta-accused-of-relentless-attacks-on-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN expert says minors have been beaten and forced to endure mock executionsScores of children have been killed in Myanmar since last year\u2019s coup, not just in the crossfire of conflict but as deliberate targets of a military willing to inflict immense s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[245,82,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","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\/45433","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45438,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45433\/revisions\/45438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}