{"id":214718,"date":"2021-06-24T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/24\/mps-pressure-morrison-government-to-be-tougher-on-myanmar-coup-leaders"},"modified":"2021-06-24T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:29:34","slug":"mps-pressure-morrison-government-to-be-tougher-on-myanmar-coup-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/24\/mps-pressure-morrison-government-to-be-tougher-on-myanmar-coup-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs pressure Morrison government to be tougher on Myanmar coup leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Committee of Liberal, Nationals, Labor and Greens MPs urge government to consider sanctions after hundreds of deaths in Myanmar<\/p><p>The Morrison government faces increased pressure from within its own ranks to expand sanctions against Myanmar\u2019s military leaders and to offer permanent residency to citizens who wish to remain in Australia.<\/p><p>Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of civilians amid protests in the wake of the 1 February coup but the Australian government has held off ratcheting up sanctions against the top generals, arguing the junta is largely resistant to international pressure.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/australia-should-target-myanmar-gang-leader-for-sanctions-un-expert-says\">Australia should target Myanmar \u2018gang leader\u2019 for sanctions, UN expert says<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/08\/children-of-the-junta-the-relatives-of-myanmars-military-regime-living-in-australia\">Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar\u2019s military regime living in Australia<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2021\/feb\/05\/myanmar-coup-protesters-in-pictures\">Myanmar coup protesters \u2013 in pictures<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/24\/mps-pressure-morrison-government-to-be-tougher-on-myanmar-coup-leaders\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/24\/mps-pressure-morrison-government-to-be-tougher-on-myanmar-coup-leaders\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committee of Liberal, Nationals, Labor and Greens MPs urge government to consider sanctions after hundreds of deaths in MyanmarThe Morrison government faces increased pressure from within its own ranks to expand sanctions against Myanmar\u2019s military lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,3469,1730,2883,6,18698,29491,1589,6527,2038,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214718"}],"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=214718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214762,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214718\/revisions\/214762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}