{"id":28339,"date":"2021-02-13T03:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/feb\/12\/why-myanmar-protesters-see-aung-san-suu-kyi-greatest-hope-video-explainer"},"modified":"2021-02-13T03:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:57:49","slug":"why-myanmar-protesters-see-aung-san-suu-kyi-as-their-greatest-hope-video-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28339","title":{"rendered":"Why Myanmar protesters see Aung San Suu Kyi as their greatest hope \u2013 video explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting across Myanmar since the army overthrew the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and detained most senior leaders on 1 February. <\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s rise to power prompted hope she could end years of ethnic strife in Myanmar, but she has been accused of standing by while genocide was committed against the Rohingya people. The Guardian\u2019s south Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, explains why \u2013 despite her fall from grace internationally \u2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is seen by so many protesters as the only person who can still save them from military rule<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/myanmar-coup-who-are-the-military-figures-running-the-country\">Myanmar coup: who are the military figures running the country?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/23\/aung-san-suu-kyi-fall-from-grace-myanmar\">From peace icon to pariah: Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s fall from grace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/feb\/12\/why-myanmar-protesters-see-aung-san-suu-kyi-greatest-hope-video-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting across Myanmar since the army overthrew the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and detained most senior leaders on 1 February. Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s rise to power prompted hope she could end ye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"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":[919,82,1906,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-protest","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\/28339","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\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28339\/revisions\/28429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}