{"id":122697,"date":"2019-12-10T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyi-in-court-as-genocide-hearing-opens-in-the-hague\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:47:13","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-in-court-as-genocide-hearing-opens-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122697","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi in court as genocide hearing opens in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s failure to act over Myanmar is \u2018stain on collective conscience\u2019, court toldAung San Suu Kyi has sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape perpetrated by Myanmar\u2019s military at the start of a three-day hearing at the United Nations\u2019 top court into allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.\u201cI stand before you to awaken the conscience of the world and arouse the voice of the international community,\u201d Abubacarr Marie Tambadou, the Gambia\u2019s attorney general and justice minister, said as he opened his country\u2019s case against Myanmar at the international court of justice in the Hague. \u201cIn the words of Edmund Burke, \u2018The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\u2019.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyi-court-hague-genocide-hearing-myanmar-rohingya\" target=\"_blank\">Aung San Suu Kyi in court as genocide hearing opens in The Hague<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s failure to act over Myanmar is \u2018stain on collective conscience\u2019, court toldAung San Suu Kyi has sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape perpetrated by Myanmar\u2019s military at the start of a three-day hearing at the United Nations\u2019 top court into allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.\u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}