{"id":14550,"date":"2019-03-16T17:54:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14550"},"modified":"2019-03-16T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T09:54:57","slug":"suu-kyi-promises-she-will-quickly-tackle-discrimination-in-issuing-ids-to-hindus-and-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14550","title":{"rendered":"Suu Kyi promises she will quickly tackle discrimination in issuing IDs to Hindus and Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-mizzima.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy Mizzima<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">YANGOON<\/g>, March 16 (NNN-MIZZIMA) &#8211; State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to tackle discrimination in issuing national IDs and passports to people with Hindu and Muslim faiths at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI shall tackle the issue of discrimination to people with Hindu and Muslim faiths in issuing national IDs. I will handle this issue with Immigration Minister when I get back to Nay Pyi Taw, she said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She promised this in replying to a question asked by a local resident in a meeting with people in Bago, Bago Region on March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEqual treatment of people living in our country is our dignity,\u201d she said at the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this meeting, a local resident lodged a complaint with the State Counsellor that the people who followed Hindu and Muslim faiths were being discriminated against when applying for national IDs and they had to pay bribes to the officials to get these documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suu Kyi also said that a provision in 2008 Constitution clearly stipulated that \u2018the Union shall not discriminate against any citizen based on race, birth or religion\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Counsellor has been touring the States and Regions since last month and she met with local people and local governments there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGOON, March 16 (NNN-MIZZIMA) &#8211; State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to tackle discrimination in issuing national IDs and passports to people with Hindu and Muslim faiths at the earliest opportunity. \u201cI shall tackle the issue of discrimination to people with Hindu and Muslim faiths in issuing national IDs. I will handle this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}