{"id":41187,"date":"2022-01-30T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/29\/myanmars-junta-torching-village-after-village-in-bid-to-quell-opposition"},"modified":"2022-01-30T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:00:02","slug":"myanmars-junta-torching-village-after-village-in-bid-to-quell-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41187","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s junta torching \u2018village after village\u2019 in bid to quell opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year in power, evidence is growing of regime scorched-earth tactics to terrorise the civilian population<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of 6 January, Boi Van Thang set out on a motorbike across the mountainous terrain of Chin state in western Myanmar. He would travel to a nearby village, he told his wife, and bring back meat for her and their seven children.<\/p>\n<p>He never returned. Three days later his wife, Thida Htwe, received a call. Boi Van Thang\u2019s body had been found. The bodies of eight other men and one boy had also been discovered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/29\/myanmars-junta-torching-village-after-village-in-bid-to-quell-opposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year in power, evidence is growing of regime scorched-earth tactics to terrorise the civilian populationOn the morning of 6 January, Boi Van Thang set out on a motorbike across the mountainous terrain of Chin state in western Myanmar. He would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2848,"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":[59,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","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\/41187","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\/2848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions\/41188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}