{"id":93776,"date":"2017-06-12T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=93776"},"modified":"2017-06-11T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:13:51","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-nobel-peace-laureate-buddhist-turning-her-back-on-muslim-rohingya-in-myanmarburma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-nobel-peace-laureate-buddhist-turning-her-back-on-muslim-rohingya-in-myanmarburma\/","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi [Nobel Peace Laureate, Buddhist]: Turning Her Back on Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar\/Burma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/logo-aljazeera.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/logo-aljazeera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><strong>9 Jun 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We debate whether Myanmar&#8217;s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is intentionally ignoring the plight of the Rohingya, or whether she is incapable of stopping the genocidal violence owing to constraints by the military.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We know that Aung San Suu Kyi does not control the armed forces,&#8221;<\/em> says [TRANSCEND Member] Maung Zarni, an exiled dissident from Myanmar. <em>&#8220;[But] she controls four other ministries that are directly involved in dismissing, denying, and legitimising the persecution of the Rohingyas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta disagrees, claiming Suu Kyi inherited an &#8220;<em>extraordinarily difficult situation<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YvJ988zL4PQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We know that Aung San Suu Kyi does not control the armed forces,&#8221; says [TRANSCEND Member] Maung Zarni, an exiled dissident from Myanmar. &#8220;[But] she controls four other ministries that are directly involved in dismissing, denying, and legitimising the persecution of the Rohingyas.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta disagrees, claiming Suu Kyi inherited an &#8220;extraordinarily difficult situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93776","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=93776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}