{"id":30504,"date":"2021-04-02T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T06:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/myanmar-coup-military-expands-internet-shutdown"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T06:12:04","slug":"myanmar-coup-military-expands-internet-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30504","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar coup: military expands internet shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New cuts affect wireless broadband services and come as UN security council expresses \u2018deep concern\u2019 at the \u2018rapidly deteriorating situation\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military junta has expanded an internet shutdown, further stifling access to information in the country, where hundreds of people have been killed and disappeared following a coup in February.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, ahead of the new restrictions, people rushed to share links to radio channels and communication apps that function offline. On the streets, protesters held a vigil, using candles to spell the words \u201cWe will never surrender\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/myanmar-coup-military-expands-internet-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cuts affect wireless broadband services and come as UN security council expresses \u2018deep concern\u2019 at the \u2018rapidly deteriorating situation\u2019 Myanmar\u2019s military junta has expanded an internet shutdown, further stifling access to information in the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[919,82,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","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\/30504","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions\/30505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}