{"id":29759,"date":"2021-03-15T01:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/myanmars-darkest-moment-death-toll-rises-sharply-as-juntas-crackdown-continues"},"modified":"2021-03-15T01:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:44:04","slug":"myanmars-darkest-moment-death-toll-rises-sharply-as-juntas-crackdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29759","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s \u2018darkest moment\u2019:  death toll rises sharply as junta&#8217;s crackdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted MPs urge citizens to defend themselves after one of deadliest days since February coup<\/p>\n<p>At least 18 people have been killed in one of the deadliest days since Myanmar was thrust back under military rule, as a group of ousted MPs urged citizens to defend themselvesduring the nation\u2019s \u201cdarkest moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military forced the civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a coup on 1 February, triggering a mass uprising that has led to hundreds of thousands protesting daily for a return to democracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/myanmars-darkest-moment-death-toll-rises-sharply-as-juntas-crackdown-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted MPs urge citizens to defend themselves after one of deadliest days since February coupAt least 18 people have been killed in one of the deadliest days since Myanmar was thrust back under military rule, as a group of ousted MPs urged citizens to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"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-29759","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\/29759","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\/1998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29759\/revisions\/29761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}