{"id":29742,"date":"2021-03-14T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T05:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/myanmar-acting-civilian-leader-pledges-revolution-against-junta"},"modified":"2021-03-14T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T13:34:51","slug":"myanmar-acting-civilian-leader-says-people-must-win-the-uprising-against-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29742","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: acting civilian leader says &#8216;we must win&#8217; as five more protesters die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahn Win Khaing Than, speaking from hiding, says \u2018this is the darkest moment of the nation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The acting leader of Myanmar\u2019s parallel civilian government has said the people \u201cmust win the uprising\u201d against the junta as security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Yangon and at least five people were killed as protests continued for a sixth week.<\/p>\n<p>Mahn Win Khaing Than, who is in hiding along with most senior officials from the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was ousted in 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\">1 February coup<\/a>, addressed the public via Facebook, saying: \u201cThis is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close. The federal democracy union \u2026 is waiting for us in the near future if we move forward unitedly with invincibility,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWe must win the uprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/myanmar-acting-civilian-leader-pledges-revolution-against-junta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahn Win Khaing Than, speaking from hiding, says \u2018this is the darkest moment of the nation\u2019The acting leader of Myanmar\u2019s parallel civilian government has said the people \u201cmust win the uprising\u201d against the junta as security forces opened fire on demon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-29742","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\/29742","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29750,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29742\/revisions\/29750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}