{"id":40273,"date":"2022-01-03T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/a-normal-tactic-myanmars-aid-workers-vow-to-press-on-despite-christmas-eve-massacre"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:43:25","slug":"a-normal-tactic-myanmars-aid-workers-vow-to-press-on-despite-christmas-eve-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40273","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A normal tactic\u2019: Myanmar\u2019s aid workers vow to press on despite Christmas Eve massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks such as the one in which two Save the Children staff died are a harsh fact of life under the junta, say humanitarian workers<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe events of last week are just par for the army\u2019s inhumanity and immorality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So says Michael Isherwood, chair of the Burma Humanitarian Mission and program director of Backpack Medics, after Myanmar\u2019s junta massacred more than 35 people, including two Save the Children workers, on Christmas Eve. At the time, the attack garnered international headlines, with the children\u2019s charity calling it \u201cabsolutely horrifying\u201d, and the UN urging an investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/a-normal-tactic-myanmars-aid-workers-vow-to-press-on-despite-christmas-eve-massacre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks such as the one in which two Save the Children staff died are a harsh fact of life under the junta, say humanitarian workers\u201cThe events of last week are just par for the army\u2019s inhumanity and immorality.\u201dSo says Michael Isherwood, chair of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","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\/40273","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\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions\/40274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}