{"id":27636,"date":"2021-02-01T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:07:17","slug":"myanmar-army-takes-power-in-coup-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27636","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar army takes power in coup as Aung San Suu Kyi detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military has previously threatened to \u2018take action\u2019 over alleged fraud in a November election<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military has taken power in a coup and declared a state of emergency, hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/ten-years-of-freedom-ends-myanmars-tarnished-heroine-sees-dark-days-return\">detaining Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a> and other senior figures from the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Phone and mobile internet services in the city of Yangon were down on Monday morning and military trucks, one carrying barbed-wire barriers, were parked outside City Hall. The state-run MRTV network said it had been unable to broadcast. Banks were closed across the nation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military has previously threatened to \u2018take action\u2019 over alleged fraud in a November electionMyanmar\u2019s military has taken power in a coup and declared a state of emergency, hours after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[919,59,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27636\/revisions\/27638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}