{"id":246284,"date":"2016-12-13T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=95862"},"modified":"2016-12-13T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:52:04","slug":"the-genocide-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2016\/12\/13\/the-genocide-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The genocide next door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rohingya people are\u00a0Muslim\u00a0Indo-Aryan peoples\u00a0from the\u00a0 Rakhine State, Myanmar. According to Rohingyas and some scholars, they are indigenous to Rakhine State, while other historians claim that they migrated to Myanmar from Bengal primarily during the period of\u00a0British rule in Burma, and to a lesser extent, following Burmese independence in 1948 and the\u00a0Bangladesh Liberation War\u00a0in 1971. International media and human rights organizations have often described Rohingyas as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world,\u00a0while origin of that term with relation to the United Nations is still unclear. As of December 2016, 1 in 7 stateless persons worldwide are Rohingya as per\u00a0United Nations figures on statelessness.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/the-genocide-next-door\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/the-genocide-next-door\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rohingya people are&nbsp;Muslim&nbsp;Indo-Aryan peoples&nbsp;from the&nbsp; Rakhine State, Myanmar. According to Rohingyas and some scholars, they are indigenous to Rakhine State, while other historians claim that they migrated to Myanmar from Bengal primarily during the period of&nbsp;British rule in Burma, and to a lesser extent, following Burmese independence in 1948 and the&nbsp;Bangladesh Liberation War&nbsp;in 1971. International media and human rights organizations have often described Rohingyas as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world,&nbsp;while origin of that term with relation to the United Nations is still unclear. As of December 2016, 1 in 7 stateless persons worldwide are Rohingya as per&nbsp;United Nations figures on statelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[3951,9440,3945],"class_list":["post-246284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-general-articles","tag-nameirakpam-albert","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246285,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246284\/revisions\/246285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}