{"id":29827,"date":"2021-03-16T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/killed-in-myanmar-since-beginning-of-coup"},"modified":"2021-03-16T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:05:21","slug":"mass-funerals-held-as-myanmar-coup-death-toll-revised-up-to-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29827","title":{"rendered":"Mass funerals held as Myanmar coup death toll revised up to 149"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of mourners gather in townships across Yangon after dozens of people were killed in recent days<\/p>\n<p>At least 149 people have been killed in Myanmar 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\">1 February coup<\/a>, including five in custody, a UN human rights official has said, as mass funerals were held for dozens of those shot dead by security forces in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>The revised estimate of the death toll follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/myanmars-darkest-moment-death-toll-rises-sharply-as-juntas-crackdown-continues\">the bloodiest day<\/a> in the six weeks since the military\u2019s takeover, with 74 protesters killed on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/15\/myanmar-military-condemned-appalling-violence-deaths--yangon-martial-law\">followed by 20 people the next day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/killed-in-myanmar-since-beginning-of-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of mourners gather in townships across Yangon after dozens of people were killed in recent daysAt least 149 people have been killed in Myanmar since the 1 February coup, including five in custody, a UN human rights official has said, as mass f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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-29827","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\/29827","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29828,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29827\/revisions\/29828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}