{"id":6709,"date":"2019-07-17T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T05:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2019-07-17T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T05:34:18","slug":"us-slaps-sanctions-on-myanmar-army-chief-over-rohingya-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6709","title":{"rendered":"US slaps sanctions on Myanmar army chief over Rohingya abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United State, on Tuesday announced sanctions on Myanmar&#8217;s military Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders due to their role in the &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; of the Rohingya<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/rohingya.html\">\u00a0<\/a>minority.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said it took action against army chief Min Aung Hlaing and three others after finding credible evidence they were involved in the violence two years ago that led about 740,000 Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6712\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brutal military crackdown forced about 740,000 Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The steps, which also covered Min Aung Hlaing\u2019s deputy, Soe Win, and two other senior commanders and their families, are the strongest the United States has taken in response to massacres of minority Rohingyas in Myanmar, also known as Burma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this announcement, the United States is the first government to publicly take action with respect to the most senior leadership of the Burmese military,\u201d said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been a strong advocate of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United State, on Tuesday announced sanctions on Myanmar&#8217;s military Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders due to their role in the &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; of the Rohingya\u00a0minority. The State Department said it took action against army chief Min Aung Hlaing and three others after finding credible evidence they were involved in the violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6715,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}