{"id":67697,"date":"2024-11-07T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/myanmar-rakhine-state-economy-collapse-starvation-fears-un"},"modified":"2024-11-07T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T06:13:06","slug":"2-million-at-risk-of-starvation-in-myanmar-state-amid-total-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67697","title":{"rendered":"2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid \u2018total economic collapse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: a UN report will accuse the military of imposing \u2018collective punishment\u2019 on Rakhine state, more than three years after seizing power in a coup<\/p>\n<p>Two million people in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state could face starvation within months because fierce conflict and trade blockades have led to a \u201ctotal economic collapse\u201d and the imminent risk of famine, a senior UN official has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh in the west, is on the brink of disaster, as people\u2019s incomes crater, rice cultivation plummets, and military-imposed trade restrictions lead to severe food shortages and hyperinflation, according to forthcoming research from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which accuses the military of inflicting \u201ccollective punishment\u201d on civilians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/myanmar-rakhine-state-economy-collapse-starvation-fears-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: a UN report will accuse the military of imposing \u2018collective punishment\u2019 on Rakhine state, more than three years after seizing power in a coupTwo million people in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state could face starvation within months because fierce co&#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":[1527,82,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famine","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697","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=67697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67703,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions\/67703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}