{"id":9410,"date":"2019-09-16T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:45:14","slug":"rohingya-still-in-myanmar-face-threat-of-genocide-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9410","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya Still in Myanmar Face &#8216;Threat of Genocide&#8217;: United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a \u201cserious risk of genocide\u201d, UN investigators said on Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains \u201cimpossible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some 600,000 Rohingya are living in \u201cdeplorable\u201d conditions in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state, subject to restrictions on movement that touch almost every aspect of their lives, the U.N report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese facts underscore the impossibility of return for the nearly one million Rohingya refugees, mostly in Bangladesh,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The new report accuses the security forces of \u201ctorture and ill-treatment\u201d of suspected insurgents in northern Myanmar, and says sexual and gender-based violence by the Myanmar military \u201cremains a prominent feature of conflicts in Shan and Kachin states\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar military spokesman Zaw Min Tun rejected the team&#8217;s findings, calling them \u201cone-sided\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Around\u00a0 740,000 Rohingya fled burning villages, bringing accounts of murder, rape and torture over the border to sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh, where survivors of previous waves of persecution already languish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a \u201cserious risk of genocide\u201d, UN investigators said on Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains \u201cimpossible\u201d. Some 600,000 Rohingya are living in \u201cdeplorable\u201d conditions in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state, subject to restrictions on movement that touch almost every aspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","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=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}