{"id":41262,"date":"2022-02-01T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/photojournalist-myanmar-military-attacks-protesters-mandalay-funerals"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:45:11","slug":"i-photographed-myanmars-protesters-one-day-and-their-funerals-the-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41262","title":{"rendered":"I photographed Myanmar\u2019s protesters one day \u2013 and their funerals the next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photojournalist Moe documented the military\u2019s terrifying and brutal attacks on protests in Mandalay, until even carrying his camera became too risky<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My first encounter with the military came on 4 February 2021, three days after the coup. From the back of my friend\u2019s motorcycle, I hid my camera under my clothes and attempted to photograph soliders as they drove in trucks through my native city of Mandalay carrying their guns. I couldn\u2019t get a good picture, however, because one of the vehicles started following us and we had to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, almost the whole country had erupted in protest. I couldn\u2019t stay still any more, and I joined the crowds on 7 February.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The whole country had erupted in protest. I couldn\u2019t stay still any more, and I joined the crowds\u2019<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/photojournalist-myanmar-military-attacks-protesters-mandalay-funerals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photojournalist Moe documented the military\u2019s terrifying and brutal attacks on protests in Mandalay, until even carrying his camera became too riskyMy first encounter with the military came on 4 February 2021, three days after the coup. From the back o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2856,"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":[59,53,82,1906,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","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\/41262","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\/2856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262\/revisions\/41284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}