{"id":98319,"date":"2017-09-11T12:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=98319"},"modified":"2017-09-07T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:30:17","slug":"nobel-peace-laureate-aung-san-suu-kyis-response-to-rakhine-and-rohingya-crisis-in-myanmar-unconscionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/09\/nobel-peace-laureate-aung-san-suu-kyis-response-to-rakhine-and-rohingya-crisis-in-myanmar-unconscionable\/","title":{"rendered":"[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s Response to Rakhine and Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar \u2018Unconscionable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98320\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98320\" class=\"wp-image-98320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rohingya-refugees-K-M-Asad-Getty-1440x540-burma-myanmar.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9K M Asad\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>6 Sep 2017 &#8211; <\/em>The statement by Myanmar\u2019s leader Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s office, which claims that the government is defending all the people in Rakhine state \u201cin the best possible way,\u201d is unconscionable, Amnesty International said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. In her first comments on the crisis, instead of promising concrete action to protect the people in Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be downplaying the horrific reports coming out of the area,\u201d said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International\u2019s Crisis Response Director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith tens of thousands of Rohingya pouring across the border, and thousands of others displaced in the state, the evidence that the Myanmar military has launched a vicious campaign of retaliatory violence against the predominantly Muslim Rohingya people is overwhelming. The government must allow immediate and unfettered access to aid organizations, which have been blocked from helping those who are stranded in the northern part of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following attacks by a Rohingya armed group on August 25, and the subsequent campaign of violence perpetrated by the military against the Rohingya community in Rakhine state, about 146,000 Rohingya people, mostly women and children, have crossed into neighboring Bangladesh, leading to a major humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-56345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-150x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><em>The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 was awarded to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/1991\/kyi-facts.html\" >Aung San Suu Kyi <\/a>&#8220;for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/press-releases\/official-response-to-rakhine-and-rohingya-crisis-in-myanmar-unconscionable\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 amnestyusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Sep 2017 -\u201cThis is a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. In her first comments on the crisis, instead of promising concrete action to protect the people in Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be downplaying the horrific reports coming out of the area,\u201d said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International\u2019s Crisis Response Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobel-laureates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98319","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=98319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}