{"id":30558,"date":"2021-04-04T03:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/desperate-burmese-refugees-flee-to-thailand-and-india-to-escape-crisis"},"modified":"2021-04-04T03:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:32:58","slug":"desperate-burmese-refugees-flee-to-thailand-and-india-to-escape-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30558","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Burmese refugees flee to Thailand and India to escape crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tension rise on borders as thousands seek safe haven from military crackdown<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s escalating crisis is spilling across its borders, as thousands of refugees seek safe haven in India and Thailand in the wake of the military coup and bloody crackdowns on anti-coup protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in both countries have tried to block new arrivals, fearing that a steady flow may become a flood, if unrest spreading through Myanmar worsens. A top UN official warned last week that the country is \u201con the verge of spiralling into a failed state\u201d if action is not taken soon to stem the bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/desperate-burmese-refugees-flee-to-thailand-and-india-to-escape-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension rise on borders as thousands seek safe haven from military crackdownMyanmar\u2019s escalating crisis is spilling across its borders, as thousands of refugees seek safe haven in India and Thailand in the wake of the military coup and bloody crackdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2064,"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":[41,62,491,82,494,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-india","category-migration","category-myanmar","category-refugees","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\/30558","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\/2064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558\/revisions\/30562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}