{"id":137595,"date":"2019-07-15T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137595"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:06:05","slug":"in-myanmars-conflict-torn-rakhine-fresh-allegations-of-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/in-myanmars-conflict-torn-rakhine-fresh-allegations-of-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Myanmar&#8217;s Conflict-Torn Rakhine, Fresh Allegations of &#8216;War Crimes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_137598\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137598\" class=\"wp-image-137598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burma-myanmar-rohingya.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-137598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thein Mya Yi shows a photo of Their Tun Sein, husband of Ah Hla, who died in custody, provided to the families by the prison staff, in Mrauk U, Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 29, 2019. REUTERS\/Ann Wang<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>12 Jul 2019<\/em> &#8211; When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn\u2019t know whether he was alive or dead.<\/p>\n<p>Several dozen men, including her fisherman husband, had been detained weeks earlier when the military raided their village in central Rakhine state\u2019s Mrauk-U township and accused them of belonging to a rebel army, residents told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went there with the hope that I am going to see my husband, but he was not there,\u201d said Ah Hla, who had walked to the police station with a group of relatives of the detained men. When she arrived, police told her that her husband of 15 years had hanged himself in his cell, and that his body had already been disposed of.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-myanmar-rakhine-insight-idUSKCN1U71JS\" >TO READ THE ARTICLE: Go to Original \u2013 reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Jul 2019 &#8211; When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn\u2019t know whether he was alive or dead. \u201cI went there with the hope that I am going to see my husband, but he was not there,\u201d said Ah Hla, who had walked to the police station with a group of relatives of the detained men. When she arrived, police told her that her husband of 15 years had hanged himself in his cell, and that his body had already been disposed of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":137598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[229,240,1149,1198,526,120,1199,865,267,260,487,926,866,651,291,287,103,107,527,985,380,124,126,92,118],"class_list":["post-137595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-updates-on-myanmar-rohingya-genocide","tag-activism","tag-asia","tag-asia-and-the-pacific","tag-buddhism","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-conflict","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-genocide","tag-geopolitics","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarianism","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-justice","tag-military","tag-power","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-rohingya","tag-social-justice","tag-solutions","tag-united-nations","tag-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137595","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=137595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}