{"id":28222,"date":"2021-02-11T01:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/we-all-know-what-were-facing-divided-myanmar-unites-against-coup"},"modified":"2021-02-11T01:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:26:28","slug":"we-all-know-what-were-facing-divided-myanmar-unites-against-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28222","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We all know what we&#8217;re facing&#8217;: divided Myanmar unites against coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marginalised groups including Rohingya and members of LGBT community join rallies <\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar military took power last week on the promise of \u201crestoring eternal peace\u201d to a country riven by seven decades of ethnic conflict. Since the takeover it has made remarkable progress in uniting the deeply divided country against a common enemy: itself.<\/p>\n<p>In Myanmar\u2019s biggest city, Yangon, strangers greet each other with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/08\/three-finger-salute-hunger-games-symbol-adopted-by-myanmars-protesters\">three-finger salute<\/a> \u2013 a symbol of resistance against the regime \u2013 and trucks offer free rides for demonstrators. Neighbours cook chickpea curry in big vats on the streets to dish out to passersby, and volunteers distribute refreshments to keep people hydrated under the hot sun.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/we-all-know-what-were-facing-divided-myanmar-unites-against-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marginalised groups including Rohingya and members of LGBT community join rallies The Myanmar military took power last week on the promise of \u201crestoring eternal peace\u201d to a country riven by seven decades of ethnic conflict. Since the takeover it has ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1907,"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":[72,82,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-rights","category-myanmar","category-rohingya","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\/28222","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\/1907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28223,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222\/revisions\/28223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}