{"id":41359,"date":"2022-02-04T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/mothers-myanmar-revolution-i-worry-about-whether-he-has-warm-clothes"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T08:00:22","slug":"mothers-of-the-myanmar-revolution-i-worry-about-whether-he-has-warm-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41359","title":{"rendered":"Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: \u2018I worry about whether he has warm clothes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime \u2013 leaving supportive but fearful families behind<\/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 Peh Reh\u2019s* mother, Mi Nya*, lost contact with him in September, she had little doubt as to where he had gone. Four months earlier, the 19-year-old had told her he wanted to join the armed resistance against the military, which had seized power from the democratically-elected government in Myanmar in February 2021. Yet she refused to let him leave their home in Myanmar\u2019s south-eastern Karenni state (also known as Kayah).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my eyes, he is still so young,\u201d she says<em>. \u201c<\/em>If I could, I would like to keep my son next to me all the time<em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/mothers-myanmar-revolution-i-worry-about-whether-he-has-warm-clothes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime \u2013 leaving supportive but fearful families behindRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesWhen Peh Reh\u2019s* mother, Mi Nya*, lost contact with him in Septembe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2872,"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":[87,59,82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-and-arms","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\/41359","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\/2872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41360,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41359\/revisions\/41360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}