{"id":107947,"date":"2018-03-26T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=107947"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T09:58:00","slug":"myanmar-blocks-returning-rohingya-with-barbed-wire-fence-land-mines-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/03\/myanmar-blocks-returning-rohingya-with-barbed-wire-fence-land-mines-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Blocks Returning Rohingya with Barbed Wire Fence, Land Mines, Security Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107950\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/burma-myanmar-bangladesh-rohingya2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107950\" class=\"wp-image-107950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/burma-myanmar-bangladesh-rohingya2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/burma-myanmar-bangladesh-rohingya2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/burma-myanmar-bangladesh-rohingya2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myanmar is fortifying its border with Bangladesh. (Getty Images: Joe Freeman)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>22 Mar 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Myanmar is fortifying its border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are sheltering after fleeing persecution in Myanmar&#8217;s Rakhine state.<\/p>\n<p>The military has built a new barbed wire fence, installed land mines and placed hundreds of security forces on the shared border.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 Rohingya are living on a narrow strip of land between the two countries since some 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar last August.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh has warned the military build up will escalate tensions but Myanmar&#8217;s focus right now is on its own political future after the country&#8217;s president quit yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/breakfast\/myanmar-blocks-returning-rohingya\/9574810\" >Go to Original \u2013 abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Mar 2018 &#8211; Myanmar is fortifying its border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are sheltering after fleeing persecution in Myanmar&#8217;s Rakhine state. The military has built a new barbed wire fence, installed land mines and placed hundreds of security forces on the shared border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":107948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107947","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=107947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}