{"id":41280,"date":"2022-02-01T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/silent-strike-empties-streets-in-myanmar-on-anniversary-of-coup"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:56:30","slug":"silent-strike-empties-streets-in-myanmar-on-anniversary-of-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41280","title":{"rendered":"Silent strike empties streets in Myanmar on anniversary of coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shops abandoned as public defies military threats and stays at home a year after ousting of government<\/p>\n<p>Streets were deserted and shops abandoned across many of Myanmar\u2019s towns and cities on Monday, as the public defied threats by the military junta and stayed at home in a \u201csilent strike\u201d on the first anniversary of the country\u2019s coup.<\/p>\n<p>Images posted on social media showed usually congested roads with no traffic and stores shuttered. In a photograph shared by Khit Thit Media, the usually busy Sule Pagoda road in downtown Yangon was completely empty. In Mandalay, the second largest city, a normally bustling market had virtually no customers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/silent-strike-empties-streets-in-myanmar-on-anniversary-of-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shops abandoned as public defies military threats and stays at home a year after ousting of governmentStreets were deserted and shops abandoned across many of Myanmar\u2019s towns and cities on Monday, as the public defied threats by the military junta and &#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":[82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","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\/41280","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=41280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41281,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions\/41281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}