{"id":41289,"date":"2022-02-02T00:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/teachers-on-the-run-striking-public-sector-workers-hunted-by-myanmar-military"},"modified":"2022-02-02T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:38:46","slug":"teachers-on-the-run-striking-public-sector-workers-hunted-by-myanmars-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41289","title":{"rendered":"Teachers on the run: striking public sector workers hunted by Myanmar\u2019s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against the coup mean hospitals and schools are on the brink of collapse, while workers have left their homes to avoid arrest and interrogation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/series\/reporting-myanmar\">Read more in our Reporting Myanmar series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When hundreds of thousands of workers across the country walked out of their jobs in protest at the military\u2019s seizure of power in Myanmar on 1 February 2021, Grace* was among the first to join.<\/p>\n<p>Although she was seven months pregnant, the middle-school teacher from Chin state was determined to resist the military by refusing to work under its administration. Joining her was her husband, also a government employee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/teachers-on-the-run-striking-public-sector-workers-hunted-by-myanmar-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against the coup mean hospitals and schools are on the brink of collapse, while workers have left their homes to avoid arrest and interrogationRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesWhen hundreds of thousands of workers across the country wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2862,"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":[59,82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","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\/41289","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\/2862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41290,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions\/41290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}