{"id":30958,"date":"2021-04-15T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/15\/myanmars-lost-generation-young-people-sacrifice-futures-for-freedom"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:59:52","slug":"myanmars-lost-generation-nations-youth-sacrificing-futures-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30958","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s lost generation: nation\u2019s youth sacrificing futures for freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams of careers and family life have been replaced with death and injury in the wake of the 1 February coup<\/p>\n<p>For Myanmar\u2019s young people, 2021 was supposed to be a year for optimism. After seeing through the Covid-19 pandemic, the rollout of the vaccine had begun and general elections in November had marked a step towards the country realising its potential.<\/p>\n<p>But in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/myanmar-coup-military-expands-internet-shutdown\">1 February coup<\/a>, their dreams have turned into nightmares, as many of Myanmar\u2019s young people have found themselves forced to sacrifice their futures to take a stand against the military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/15\/myanmars-lost-generation-young-people-sacrifice-futures-for-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams of careers and family life have been replaced with death and injury in the wake of the 1 February coupFor Myanmar\u2019s young people, 2021 was supposed to be a year for optimism. After seeing through the Covid-19 pandemic, the rollout of the vaccine&#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":[59,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","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\/30958","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=30958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions\/30959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}