{"id":29751,"date":"2021-03-14T16:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/14\/a-child-screams-in-myanmar-and-china-pretends-not-to-hear"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:30:25","slug":"a-child-screams-in-myanmar-and-china-pretends-not-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29751","title":{"rendered":"A child screams in Myanmar \u2026 and China pretends not to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s global standing is plunging as Xi Jinping attempts to whitewash atrocities in the name of empire-building<\/p>\n<p>A terrible scream of pain contorts a little girl\u2019s face and tells the story of the army\u2019s brutal crackdown in Myanmar. Shwe Yote Hlwar, five, is standing beside an open coffin containing the body of her father, Ko Zwe Htet Soe, shot dead by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Her face is a picture of searing, bottomless grief. Women try to help. But there is no comforting her. Who can explain her dad\u2019s needless killing? Who can say why men in uniform think it\u2019s OK to do such things?<br \/>Shwe\u2019s agonised scream is that of an entire nation. It echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/09\/world\/asia\/myanmar-military-tatmadaw-violence.html\" title=\"\">around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/14\/a-child-screams-in-myanmar-and-china-pretends-not-to-hear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s global standing is plunging as Xi Jinping attempts to whitewash atrocities in the name of empire-buildingA terrible scream of pain contorts a little girl\u2019s face and tells the story of the army\u2019s brutal crackdown in Myanmar. Shwe Yote Hlwa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[41,919,50,48,82,61,67,42,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29751","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29751\/revisions\/29752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}