{"id":100661,"date":"2021-03-31T04:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/myanmar-coup-kevin-rudd-joins-calls-for-un-security-council-intervention"},"modified":"2021-03-31T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T04:19:40","slug":"myanmar-coup-kevin-rudd-joins-calls-for-un-security-council-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/31\/myanmar-coup-kevin-rudd-joins-calls-for-un-security-council-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar coup: Kevin Rudd joins calls for UN security council intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian PM says world \u2018radically underestimating\u2019 how quickly junta violence could deteriorate to tens of thousands of deaths and a refugee crisis<\/p><p>The world is \u201cradically underestimating\u201d how badly the situation in Myanmar could deteriorate, with the prospect of thousands of deaths and an exodus of refugees, the former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has warned.<\/p><p>Rudd raised the alarm as he called for an urgent meeting of the UN security council, arguing the international community had a \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d the people of Myanmar from \u201cmass atrocities\u201d by the country\u2019s military.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/australia-urged-to-give-hawke-government-style-amnesty-to-myanmarese-students\">Myanmar coup: Australia urged to give Hawke government-style amnesty to students<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/garbage-strike-and-candle-lit-vigils-as-myanmar-death-toll-passes-500\">'Garbage strike' and candle-lit vigils as Myanmar death toll passes 500<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/myanmar-coup-kevin-rudd-joins-calls-for-un-security-council-intervention\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/myanmar-coup-kevin-rudd-joins-calls-for-un-security-council-intervention\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian PM says world \u2018radically underestimating\u2019 how quickly junta violence could deteriorate to tens of thousands of deaths and a refugee crisisThe world is \u201cradically underestimating\u201d how badly the situation in Myanmar could deteriorate, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,190,6,9285,1589,2038,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100662,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100661\/revisions\/100662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}