{"id":36573,"date":"2021-09-07T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/myanmar-opposition-announces-defensive-war-against-junta"},"modified":"2021-09-07T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:19:08","slug":"myanmar-opposition-announces-defensive-war-against-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36573","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar opposition announces \u2018defensive war\u2019 against junta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting president of self-declared government calls on civilian armed groups to target military that seized power in February coup<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s self-declared parallel government, which was set up by pro-democracy politicians, has announced a \u201cdefensive war\u201d against the junta, calling for civilian armed groups to target the military and its assets.<\/p>\n<p>Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), said Tuesday marked the beginning of a nationwide revolt. He warned people to avoid unnecessary travel and stock up on essentials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/myanmar-opposition-announces-defensive-war-against-junta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting president of self-declared government calls on civilian armed groups to target military that seized power in February coupMyanmar\u2019s self-declared parallel government, which was set up by pro-democracy politicians, has announced a \u201cdefensive war\u201d&#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-36573","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\/36573","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=36573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions\/36574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}