{"id":69555,"date":"2017-09-06T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69555"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:03:53","slug":"fake-news-helping-rohingya-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/06\/fake-news-helping-rohingya-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News helping Rohingya Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr. Daya Hewapathirane\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Myanmar&#8217;s leader Aung San Suu Kyi has stated that the crisis in Rakhine state is being distorted by a &#8220;huge iceberg of misinformation&#8221;. She said that\u00a0<strong>tensions were being fanned by fake news promoting the interests of terrorists.\u00a0 Many fake news photographs are circulating. This creates a lot of problems between different communities and with the aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists&#8221;.\u00a0 Fake news is generated primarily by the Western media and, as could be expected &#8211; \u00a0the media of Muslim countries.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She has stated that her government had started defending all the people in Rakhine in the best way possible, and <strong>\u00a0&#8220;We know very well, more than most, what it means to be deprived of human rights and democratic protection. &#8220;So we make sure that all the people in our country are entitled to protection of their rights as well as, the right to, and not just political but social and humanitarian defence.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a well known fact that the latest conflict was sparked on 25 August when Rohingya militants attacked police posts, triggering a military counter-offensive. The military says it is fighting against Rohingya militants who are attacking civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar&#8217;s neighbours have come under criticism for not doing more to deal with the crisis. Bangladesh has previously refused to recognise the Rohingya as refugees, with Amnesty International accusing the country of sending people back to Myanmar to face an uncertain future. Recently the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Myanmar meeting with Suu Kyi and said that he shared the Myanmar government&#8217;s &#8220;concern&#8221; about extremist violence in Rakhine State. <strong>Suu Kyi thanked Modi for his &#8220;strength&#8221; in regard to the &#8220;terrorist threat&#8221; her security forces were facing.\u00a0 It was last month that Modi vowed to deport\u00a0the 40,000 Rohingya living in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Daya Hewapathirane\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daya Hewapathirane\u00a0 Myanmar&#8217;s leader Aung San Suu Kyi has stated that the crisis in Rakhine state is being distorted by a &#8220;huge iceberg of misinformation&#8221;. She said that\u00a0tensions were being fanned by fake news promoting the interests of terrorists.\u00a0 Many fake news photographs are circulating. This creates a lot of problems between different communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-daya-hewapathirane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}