{"id":107032,"date":"2018-03-12T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=107032"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:00:04","slug":"dispatch-from-bangladesh-this-is-gang-rape-murder-torture-a-genocidal-policy-to-destroy-a-whole-people-mairead-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/03\/dispatch-from-bangladesh-this-is-gang-rape-murder-torture-a-genocidal-policy-to-destroy-a-whole-people-mairead-maguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from Bangladesh: \u201cThis Is Gang Rape, Murder, Torture \u2013 A Genocidal Policy to Destroy a Whole People\u2026 \u201d \u2014 Mairead Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>27 Feb 2018 \u2014 The Nobel laureates visited <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-jyltjhkt-krlludfjd-r\/\" >No Man\u2019s Land\u00a0at the Bangladesh-Burma\u00a0border<\/a>\u00a0today. They are\u00a0calling for sister Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-jyltjhkt-krlludfjd-y\/\" >stop the atrocities, or resign<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/vimeo.com\/257777732<\/p>\n<p>The laureates are also calling for the Burmese army, perpetrators of a campaign of genocide against the Rohingya people, to be brought before the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>While visiting\u00a0No Man\u2019s Land\u00a0the laureates spoke to 12 Rohingya women survivors of rape at the hands of the Burmese army, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-jyltjhkt-krlludfjd-i\/\" >urged the 6,500 people stuck in between the two nations to maintain hope<\/a>\u00a0(video) in the quest for justice for the Rohingya people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cYou are not alone in the world. We are with you. We will hold the people who did this to you accountable.\u201d\u00a0Tawakkol Karman.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cThis is gang rape, murder, torture \u2013 a genocidal policy to destroy a whole people.\u00a0And Aung San Suu Kyi, must speak out in defence of the defenceless.\u201d\u00a0Mairead Maguire.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rohingya-mairead-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe urge the international community and governments to help end this crisis. We urge the UN Security Council to take measures to bring Myanmar\u2019s government to book. We are the voice of the oppressed Rohingya.\u201d Shirin Ebadi.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-jyltjhkt-krlludfjd-j\/\" >View photos of today\u2019s visit to No Man\u2019s Land.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-jyltjhkt-krlludfjd-t\/\" >Watch a short news clip about today\u2019s visit<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/human-wrongs-watch.net\/2018\/02\/28\/dispatch-from-bangladesh-this-is-gang-rape-murder-torture-a-genocidal-policy-to-destroy-a-whole-people-mairead-maguire\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Feb 2018 \u2014 The Nobel laureates visited No Man\u2019s Land at the Bangladesh-Burma border today. They are calling for sister Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to stop the atrocities, or resign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":107033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}