{"id":41518,"date":"2022-02-09T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/09\/hungry-for-war-my-journey-from-peaceful-poet-to-revolutionary-soldier-myanmar"},"modified":"2022-02-09T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:30:03","slug":"hungry-for-war-my-journey-from-peaceful-poet-to-revolutionary-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41518","title":{"rendered":"Hungry for war: my journey from peaceful poet to revolutionary soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly an anti-war poet, Maung Saungkha has endured a harsh training regime to prepare for armed struggle against Myanmar\u2019s military junta<\/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>Days after the military coup in February 2021, demonstrations erupted across Myanmar. The military responded by shooting unarmed protesters with live rounds. People were beaten, arbitrarily detained and imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>On the frontlines of protests in Yangon in February and early March, I witnessed soldiers and police firing live rounds into crowds, and on 8 March, I was one of hundreds of protesters who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/9\/barricaded-myanmar-protesters-leave-after-standoff-with-police\">barricaded<\/a> overnight on Kyun Taw Road in Yangon\u2019s Sanchaung township, where soldiers and police went from house to house searching for people to arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/09\/hungry-for-war-my-journey-from-peaceful-poet-to-revolutionary-soldier-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly an anti-war poet, Maung Saungkha has endured a harsh training regime to prepare for armed struggle against Myanmar\u2019s military juntaRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesDays after the military coup in February 2021, demonstrations erupted a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2892,"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":[82,1906,1397,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-poetry","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\/41518","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\/2892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41545,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41518\/revisions\/41545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}