{"id":113928,"date":"2018-07-09T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=113928"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:05:11","slug":"oxfords-neo-orientalism-burma-aka-myanmar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/oxfords-neo-orientalism-burma-aka-myanmar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford\u2019s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>28 Mar 2018<\/em> \u2013 The People\u2019s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as \u201cgenocide\u201d. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the \u201challmarks of genocide\u201d. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar\u2019s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as \u201cindustrial scale ethnic cleansing\u201d. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as \u201cslow burning genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/oxfords-neo-orientalism-burma-aka-myanmar\/\" >\u2192 read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Mar 2018 \u2013 The People\u2019s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as \u201cgenocide\u201d. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the \u201challmarks of genocide\u201d. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar\u2019s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as \u201cindustrial scale ethnic cleansing\u201d. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as \u201cslow burning genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":109287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,56,677,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-asia-pacific","category-asia-updates-on-myanmar-rohingya-genocide","category-academia-knowledge-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113928","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=113928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}