{"id":31861,"date":"2021-05-08T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/08\/children-of-the-junta-the-relatives-of-myanmars-military-regime-living-in-australia"},"modified":"2021-05-08T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:00:31","slug":"children-of-the-junta-the-relatives-of-myanmars-military-regime-living-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31861","title":{"rendered":"Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar\u2019s military regime living in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of military-linked officials are being targeted by anti-coup campaigners in Australia \u2013 even if they oppose the junta themselves <\/p>\n<p>Bryan Tun has messaged his father only once since February, when a brutal coup swept the military to power in Myanmar, resulting in more than 700 civilian deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Dad,\u201d he wrote to his father, Pwint San, who accepted the post of minister of commerce in the Myanmar military\u2019s illegitimate new government, \u201cif you don\u2019t quit, you\u2019re going to lose me as your son forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/08\/children-of-the-junta-the-relatives-of-myanmars-military-regime-living-in-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of military-linked officials are being targeted by anti-coup campaigners in Australia \u2013 even if they oppose the junta themselves Bryan Tun has messaged his father only once since February, when a brutal coup swept the military to power in Mya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"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":[43,388,82,1906,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31861","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\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31861\/revisions\/31862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}