{"id":29925,"date":"2021-03-19T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/myanmar-crackdown-triggers-exodus-from-its-biggest-city-yangon"},"modified":"2021-03-19T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:09:35","slug":"myanmar-security-forces-kill-eight-anti-coup-protesters-say-local-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29925","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar forces fire on protesters again as Indonesia appeals for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine killed in latest violence against anti-coup protesters, according to local media<\/p>\n<p>Security forces in Myanmar have opened fire on anti-coup demonstrators in several cities, killing at least nine people, according to local news outlets, as Indonesia issued an unusually blunt call to end the violence and restore democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Two journalists including a BBC reporter were arrested in the capital, Naypyidaw, while covering a hearing for a detained opposition leader, bringing to nearly 40 the number of media workers taken into custody since the 1 February military takeover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/myanmar-crackdown-triggers-exodus-from-its-biggest-city-yangon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine killed in latest violence against anti-coup protesters, according to local mediaSecurity forces in Myanmar have opened fire on anti-coup demonstrators in several cities, killing at least nine people, according to local news outlets, as In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1585,"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":[41,82,1906,80,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","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\/29925","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\/1585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29978,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}