{"id":29085,"date":"2021-03-01T02:17:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/28\/we-have-to-win-myanmar-protesters-persevere-as-forces-ramp-up-violence"},"modified":"2021-03-01T02:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:17:20","slug":"we-have-to-win-myanmar-protesters-persevere-as-forces-ramp-up-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29085","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have to win\u2019: Myanmar protesters persevere as forces ramp up violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violent scenes play out across country as police crack down against peaceful protesters<\/p>\n<p>Ye Swan Htet, 23, had joined a sit-down protest on a bridge in west Yangon when he saw police approaching. Officers were carrying guns, he remembered, but he didn\u2019t expect them to actually shoot. The protest was peaceful; crowds were singing and clapping.<\/p>\n<p>Then, gun fire rang out all around him. Bricks burst open and a branch snapped from a tree. \u201cThere was a guy who got hit in his thigh by a rubber bullet, so I carried him to an ambulance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/28\/we-have-to-win-myanmar-protesters-persevere-as-forces-ramp-up-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent scenes play out across country as police crack down against peaceful protestersYe Swan Htet, 23, had joined a sit-down protest on a bridge in west Yangon when he saw police approaching. Officers were carrying guns, he remembered, but he didn\u2019t &#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":[919,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","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\/29085","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=29085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions\/29091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}