{"id":30223,"date":"2021-03-26T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/26\/myanmar-coup-320-protesters-killed"},"modified":"2021-03-26T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:17:00","slug":"number-of-protesters-killed-since-myanmar-coup-passes-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30223","title":{"rendered":"Number of protesters killed since Myanmar coup passes 320"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tally comes as US and UK impose sanctions on two firms that form \u2018financial lifeline for military junta\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/23\/seven-year-old-girl-killed-in-myanmar-after-security-forces-open-fire\">protesters killed in Myanmar<\/a> since February\u2019s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country\u2019s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which said its total only included documented cases and that the real number was likely to be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>The latest tally came as security forces shot and killed three more anti-junta protesters on Friday. \u201cTwo were killed by head shots,\u201d said a witness who saw officers open fire on protesters waving black flags in the southern town of Myeik.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/26\/myanmar-coup-320-protesters-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tally comes as US and UK impose sanctions on two firms that form \u2018financial lifeline for military junta\u2019The number of protesters killed in Myanmar since February\u2019s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country\u2019s Assistance Association for P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/30223","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223\/revisions\/30224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}