{"id":28463,"date":"2021-02-15T04:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/tanks-on-streets-of-myanmar-city-prompt-us-embassy-warning"},"modified":"2021-02-15T04:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T19:35:33","slug":"myanmar-tanks-roll-into-cities-as-internet-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28463","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: tanks roll into cities as internet shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomats warn \u2018the world is watching\u2019 amid fears for fate of pro-democracy protesters<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s internet has been cut overnight on Sunday, hours after armoured vehicles rolled into several cities, prompting fears for the fate of protesters and warnings by diplomats that \u201cthe world is watching\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Armoured cars appeared on the streets of Yangon, Myitkyina and Sittwe on Sunday, live footage broadcast online by local media showed, in the heaviest show of force so far by the military since it staged a coup on 1 February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/tanks-on-streets-of-myanmar-city-prompt-us-embassy-warning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomats warn \u2018the world is watching\u2019 amid fears for fate of pro-democracy protestersMyanmar\u2019s internet has been cut overnight on Sunday, hours after armoured vehicles rolled into several cities, prompting fears for the fate of protesters and warnings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1585,"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":[82,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/28463","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\/1585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463\/revisions\/28464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}