{"id":32410,"date":"2021-05-24T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T02:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/24\/myanmar-police-clashes-anti-coup-movement-deaths-peoples-defence-force"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:32:39","slug":"myanmar-dozens-of-police-reported-killed-in-clashes-with-anti-coup-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32410","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar rebels claim police killings as Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s Defence Force says at least 20 officers died and police station seized in fighting on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Myanmar security force members have been killed in fighting, rebel fighters have claimed, as Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in February\u2019s coup.<\/p>\n<p>In one battle on Sunday, the People\u2019s Defence Force (PDF) \u2013 a civilian anti-junta movement that fights back against security forces with homemade weapons \u2013 said at least 20 police had died and a police station had been seized in the town of Moebyel in Shan state in the country\u2019s eastern fringe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/24\/myanmar-police-clashes-anti-coup-movement-deaths-peoples-defence-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s Defence Force says at least 20 officers died and police station seized in fighting on SundayDozens of Myanmar security force members have been killed in fighting, rebel fighters have claimed, as Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-32410","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\/32410","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32416,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32410\/revisions\/32416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}