{"id":53469,"date":"2023-03-16T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/myanmar-is-a-failing-state-led-by-a-junta-fuelled-by-russian-arms-says-un-rights-envoy"},"modified":"2023-03-16T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:00:06","slug":"myanmar-is-a-failing-state-led-by-a-junta-fuelled-by-russian-arms-says-un-rights-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53469","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar is a failing state, led by a junta fuelled by Russian arms, says UN rights envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civilians are being killed by Russian weapons just like in Ukraine, says special rapporteur Tom Andrews in call for global action<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar is a \u201cfailing state\u201d and the crisis is getting exponentially worse, a UN special rapporteur for the country has warned, urging countries to adopt the same unified resolve that followed the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same types of weapons that are killing Ukrainians are killing people in Myanmar,\u201d Tom Andrews, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the Guardian in an interview, citing the supply of Russian weapons to the junta since the coup two years ago. The junta relies heavily on aircraft from China and Russia, and has increasingly resorted to airstrikes to attempt to quell determined resistance forces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/myanmar-is-a-failing-state-led-by-a-junta-fuelled-by-russian-arms-says-un-rights-envoy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilians are being killed by Russian weapons just like in Ukraine, says special rapporteur Tom Andrews in call for global actionMyanmar is a \u201cfailing state\u201d and the crisis is getting exponentially worse, a UN special rapporteur for the country has war&#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":[82,1906,419,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-russia","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\/53469","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=53469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53469\/revisions\/53470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}