{"id":30430,"date":"2021-03-31T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/myanmar-freed-protester-recount-military-cruelty-beatings-squalid-conditions"},"modified":"2021-03-31T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:14:31","slug":"people-were-going-crazy-myanmar-detainees-recount-militarys-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30430","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People were going crazy\u2019: Myanmar detainees recount military\u2019s cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freed protesters and a journalist detained by the junta describe beatings and squalid conditions<\/p>\n<p>Released from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty under the military dictatorship that is opposed by most of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Hnin, 23, was arrested along with 400 other young people in a haze of stun grenades and teargas in the commercial capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/dozens-killed-in-myanmars-worst-day-of-violence-since-coup\">Yangon on 3 March<\/a> for protesting against the military coup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/myanmar-freed-protester-recount-military-cruelty-beatings-squalid-conditions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freed protesters and a journalist detained by the junta describe beatings and squalid conditionsReleased from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty under the military dictatorship that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"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":[82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-protest","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\/30430","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\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430\/revisions\/30431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}