{"id":437256,"date":"2022-12-09T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=437256"},"modified":"2022-12-09T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:32:21","slug":"britain-is-not-a-passive-observer-on-the-world-stage-we-want-oligarchs-and-dictators-to-fear-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/britain-is-not-a-passive-observer-on-the-world-stage-we-want-oligarchs-and-dictators-to-fear-us","title":{"rendered":"Britain is not a passive observer on the world stage. We want oligarchs and dictators to fear us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We are using new post-Brexit powers to impose personal sanctions on Myanmar&#8217;s military dictator, General Min Aung Hlaing.&#8217;You may not have heard of General Min Aung Hlaing, but this military dictator has robbed 55 million people of their freedom and blighted the future of his country. Last year, he seized power in Myanmar, overturning the result of a free election which a military-backed party had lost by a huge margin.The UK denounced this outrage at the time, but I&#8217;m acutely conscious that words alone are not enough. So we followed this up by using new post-Brexit powers to impose personal sanctions on the dictator, banning him from entering the UK and freezing any assets he holds here.We&#8217;ve targeted a company that he chairs, Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd, which in turn controls scores of subsidiaries &#8211; all of which are now, by extension, under sanctions. The UK has also sanctioned companies, owned by his son and daughter, which were involved in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard of General Min Aung Hlaing, but this military dictator has robbed 55 million people of their freedom and blighted the future of his country. Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}