{"id":32168,"date":"2021-05-17T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/17\/revolution-dwells-in-the-heart-myanmars-poets-cut-down-by-the-miltary"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:24:33","slug":"revolution-dwells-in-the-heart-myanmars-poets-cut-down-by-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32168","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revolution dwells in the heart\u2019: Myanmar\u2019s poets cut down by the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khet Thi, who captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public, was the third poet to be killed by the military since the coup<\/p>\n<p>His words captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public in the face of military brutality: \u201cThey shoot in the head, but they don\u2019t know revolution dwells in the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poet Khet Thi was taken from his home in Shwebo, in the Sagaing region, last Saturday. The next day, his wife collected his body from a hospital. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/10\/body-of-arrested-myanmar-poet-khet-thi-returned-to-family-with-organs-missing\">His organs had been removed<\/a>, she told BBC Burmese.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/17\/revolution-dwells-in-the-heart-myanmars-poets-cut-down-by-the-miltary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khet Thi, who captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public, was the third poet to be killed by the military since the coupHis words captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public in the face of military brutality: \u201cThey sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1885,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/32168","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\/1885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168\/revisions\/32169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}