{"id":41373,"date":"2022-02-04T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/from-student-to-revolutionary-soldier-one-young-myanmar-womans-story-a-cartoon"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:00:25","slug":"my-first-time-holding-a-gun-from-myanmar-student-to-revolutionary-soldier-a-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41373","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My first time holding a gun\u2019: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier \u2013 a cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman\u2019s story<\/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>In the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives to resist military rule.<\/p>\n<p>At least 295 young people aged 18-25 have been killed in the military\u2019s suppression of the pro-democracy movement. More than 1,000 have been arrested, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/aappb.org\/\">Assistance Association for Political Prisoners<\/a>. In response, thousands have left their homes and families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/mothers-myanmar-revolution-i-worry-about-whether-he-has-warm-clothes\">to train as revolutionary fighters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>JC<strong> <\/strong>is a young artist and illustrator from Myanmar\u2019s ethnic Karen community. She was born in Myanmar and raised on the Thai-Myanmar border<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/from-student-to-revolutionary-soldier-one-young-myanmar-womans-story-a-cartoon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman\u2019s storyRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesIn the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2880,"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":[91,71,515,59,513,82,1906,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-design","category-global-development","category-illustration","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373","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\/2880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41376,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373\/revisions\/41376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}