{"id":29218,"date":"2021-03-04T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/dozens-killed-in-myanmars-worst-day-of-violence-since-coup"},"modified":"2021-03-04T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:00:08","slug":"dozens-killed-in-myanmars-worst-day-of-violence-since-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29218","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed in Myanmar&#8217;s worst day of violence since coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces open fire on anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Mandalay and elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>At least 33 people have been killed after Myanmar\u2019s security forces opened fire on peaceful anti-coup protesters in multiple towns and cities, in the worst day of violence since the military coup last month.<\/p>\n<p>Police and military have increasingly used lethal violence in an attempt to crush demonstrations, killing at least 40 people since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">coup on 1 February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/dozens-killed-in-myanmars-worst-day-of-violence-since-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces open fire on anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Mandalay and elsewhereAt least 33 people have been killed after Myanmar\u2019s security forces opened fire on peaceful anti-coup protesters in multiple towns and cities, in the worst day of violen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1885,"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-29218","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\/29218","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\/1885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29218\/revisions\/29328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}