{"id":2772,"date":"2019-12-28T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2019-12-28T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:59:47","slug":"unga-resolution-condemns-abuses-against-myanmars-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2019\/12\/28\/unga-resolution-condemns-abuses-against-myanmars-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"UNGA resolution condemns abuses against Myanmar&#8217;s Rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution on Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar&#8217;s Rohingya and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.<\/p>\n<p>The 193-member body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favour of the resolution, which also calls on Myanmar&#8217;s government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.<\/p>\n<p>UNGA resolutions are not legally binding but they reflect world opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya to be &#8220;Bengalis&#8221; from Bangladesh, in spite of their families having lived in the country for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all have been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering them stateless; they are also denied freedom of movement and other basic rights.<\/p>\n<p>The long-simmering Rohingya crisis exploded on August 25, 2017, when Myanmar&#8217;s military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine in response to an attack by a Rohingya armed group.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign led to a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, and accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution on Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar&#8217;s Rohingya and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention. The 193-member body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favour of the resolution, which also calls on Myanmar&#8217;s government to take urgent measures to combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}