{"id":29857,"date":"2021-03-17T22:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law"},"modified":"2021-03-17T22:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:55:37","slug":"yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29857","title":{"rendered":"Yangon becomes battle zone as Myanmar junta enforces martial law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatised residents flee area as security forces fire at unarmed anti-coup protesters<\/p>\n<p>Part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a>\u2019s biggest city has turned into a battle zone, with burning barricades and security forces firing at unarmed anti-coup protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Traumatised residents have fled the industrial neighbourhood in Yangon that has become one of the flashpoint sites in a nationwide uprising against the military\u2019s coup nearly seven weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatised residents flee area as security forces fire at unarmed anti-coup protestersPart of Myanmar\u2019s biggest city has turned into a battle zone, with burning barricades and security forces firing at unarmed anti-coup protesters.Traumatised resident&#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-29857","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\/29857","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=29857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}