{"id":121367,"date":"2021-04-14T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:30:13","slug":"australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/14\/australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia should target Myanmar \u2018gang leader\u2019 for sanctions, UN expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: special rapporteur Tom Andrews says crimes against humanity are happening \u2018before our very eyes\u2019 and calls for urgent action against military junta<\/p><p>A top United Nations expert is in direct talks with the Australian government about how to expand sanctions against Myanmar\u2019s military regime, and warned that crimes against humanity are being \u201ccommitted before our very eyes\u201d.<\/p><p>Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, told Guardian Australia the government should target the commander-in-chief, whom he described as \u201cthe gang leader\u201d responsible for mass atrocities, and should link additional sanctions with those imposed by other countries.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/10\/doctors-under-fire-as-myanmar-military-targets-efforts-to-aid-injured-protesters\">Doctors under fire as Myanmar military targets efforts to aid injured protesters<\/a> <\/p><p>This is widespread. It\u2019s systematic. It is clearly ... crimes against humanity being committed before our very eyes<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/04\/is-myanmar-the-new-syria-rising-violence-threatens-a-repeat-tragedy\">Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: special rapporteur Tom Andrews says crimes against humanity are happening \u2018before our very eyes\u2019 and calls for urgent action against military juntaA top United Nations expert is in direct talks with the Australian government about how to exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,6,1589,2038,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367"}],"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\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121368,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367\/revisions\/121368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}