{"id":5097,"date":"2014-03-25T03:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2014-03-25T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:19:56","slug":"former-us-lawmaker-visits-myanmar-muslims-warns-they-lack-health-care-fear-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/25\/former-us-lawmaker-visits-myanmar-muslims-warns-they-lack-health-care-fear-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US lawmaker visits Myanmar Muslims, warns they lack health care, fear violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/myanmar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5120\" alt=\"myanmar\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/myanmar.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/myanmar.png 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/myanmar-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; A former U.S. congressman is warning that minority Rohingya (ROE-hin-gar) Muslims in Myanmar face a life-threatening lack of medical care and live in fear of attack.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Andrews is president of the U.S.-based activist group United to End Genocide. He recently visited camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.<\/p>\n<p>The former Democratic lawmaker is issuing a hard-hitting report on Monday that calls for President Barack Obama to use his leverage with Myanmar&#8217;s government to demand protection for the stateless Rohingya.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews says Rohingya are being targeted because of their religion and ethnicity. He contends there are troubling signs that mass violence could occur.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; A former U.S. congressman is warning that minority Rohingya (ROE-hin-gar) Muslims in Myanmar face a life-threatening lack of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}