{"id":190587,"date":"2021-06-04T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/04\/ousted-myanmar-politicians-call-for-rohingya-to-join-fight-against-junta"},"modified":"2021-06-04T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T08:02:44","slug":"ousted-myanmar-politicians-call-for-rohingya-to-join-fight-against-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/04\/ousted-myanmar-politicians-call-for-rohingya-to-join-fight-against-junta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Myanmar politicians call for Rohingya to join fight against junta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUG says it will scrap law denying citizenship, in \u2018notable step forward\u2019 for rights of Rohingya people<\/p><p>Myanmar\u2019s parallel government has urged Rohingya to join with them in fighting the military junta, promising to offer justice and citizenship to the persecuted minority.<\/p><p>The statement has been welcomed by rights experts as \u201can important and notable step forward\u201d in the movement for full rights for the Rohingya, who have faced decades of discrimination and violence in Myanmar.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/14\/we-cannot-hope-for-anything-good-myanmar-coup-sparks-despair-for-rohingya\">\u2018We cannot hope for anything good\u2019: Myanmar coup sparks despair for Rohingya<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/04\/ousted-myanmar-politicians-call-for-rohingya-to-join-fight-against-junta\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/04\/ousted-myanmar-politicians-call-for-rohingya-to-join-fight-against-junta\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUG says it will scrap law denying citizenship, in \u2018notable step forward\u2019 for rights of Rohingya peopleMyanmar\u2019s parallel government has urged Rohingya to join with them in fighting the military junta, promising to offer justice and citizenship to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1589,1305,2038,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190587"}],"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\/5597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190588,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190587\/revisions\/190588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}