{"id":27663,"date":"2021-02-02T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/anger-and-anxiety-in-yangon-i-dont-want-the-coup"},"modified":"2021-02-02T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:59:09","slug":"anger-and-anxiety-in-yangon-i-dont-want-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27663","title":{"rendered":"Anger and anxiety in Yangon: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want the coup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People rush to stock up on supplies while mourning blow to Myanmar\u2019s hopes of democracy <\/p>\n<p>Many people in Yangon knew when they awoke that something was wrong. Rumours of an impending coup had been circulating for days. Now mobile internet services were no longer working and phone lines were down. Some television stations had been taken off air.<\/p>\n<p>By 8.30am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">it was official<\/a>: the military had taken power. A decade after Myanmar began its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/ten-years-of-freedom-ends-myanmars-tarnished-heroine-sees-dark-days-return\">fraught journey<\/a> towards democracy, it was once again under direct army rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/anger-and-anxiety-in-yangon-i-dont-want-the-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People rush to stock up on supplies while mourning blow to Myanmar\u2019s hopes of democracy Many people in Yangon knew when they awoke that something was wrong. Rumours of an impending coup had been circulating for days. Now mobile internet services were n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/27663","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\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27664,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions\/27664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}