{"id":325164,"date":"2017-09-08T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/west-insincere-about-plight-of-rohingya-muslims-analyst\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:16:32","slug":"west-insincere-about-plight-of-rohingya-muslims-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/west-insincere-about-plight-of-rohingya-muslims-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"West insincere about plight of Rohingya Muslims: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US and other Western governments are not sincere about their criticism of the Myanmar government for committing atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims, says a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always very suspicious of the motives of the Western governments and Western media when they take up the cause of a Muslim minority in some country,\u201d said James Jatras, who is also a specialist in international relations and legislative politics in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remember how the West did the same thing with the Kosovo Albanian Muslims in Serbia in the 1990s,\u201d Jatras told Press TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to be a lot of this is crocodile tears; that they will make a big show of showing concern, but what they\u2019re really trying to do is cover up their own actions in places like Iraq and Libya and Syria,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>US and UK officials have expressed concerns about the deadly violence against the Rohingya but refused to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/08\/534488\/US-Rohingya-Myanmar-James-Jatras\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and other Western governments are not sincere about their criticism of the Myanmar government for committing atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims, says a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat. \u201cI\u2019m always very suspicious of the motives of the Western governments and Western media when they take up the cause of a Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-325164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}