{"id":39686,"date":"2021-12-10T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/myanmar-protesters-hold-silent-strike-against-military-junta"},"modified":"2021-12-11T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:40:21","slug":"myanmar-protesters-hold-silent-strike-against-military-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39686","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar protesters hold \u2018silent strike\u2019\u00a0against military junta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City streets emptied during nationwide demonstration after massacre of villagers by soldiers<\/p>\n<p>The streets in towns and cities across Myanmar were deserted on Friday as the public held a \u201csilent strike\u201d to protest against the military government, days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/eleven-villagers-shot-and-burned-alive-by-myanmar-soldiers-reports-say\">massacre of villagers<\/a> provoked international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the killing of 11 villagers, including children, in Sagaing region on Tuesday, were described by the US as \u201ccredible and sickening\u201d. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned of an \u201calarming escalation of grave human rights abuses in Myanmar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/myanmar-protesters-hold-silent-strike-against-military-junta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City streets emptied during nationwide demonstration after massacre of villagers by soldiersThe streets in towns and cities across Myanmar were deserted on Friday as the public held a \u201csilent strike\u201d to protest against the military government, days aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"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":[82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-protest","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\/39686","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\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39686\/revisions\/39697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}