{"id":41558,"date":"2022-02-10T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/10\/myanmar-watches-a-mothers-grief-as-junta-soldiers-claim-another-victim"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:18:17","slug":"myanmar-watches-a-mothers-grief-as-junta-soldiers-claim-another-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41558","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar watches a mother\u2019s grief as junta soldiers claim another victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyi says she begged soldiers to release her son, but they refused. Footage of her mourning beside his body has been viewed widely, just one of many similar stories<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kyi kneels on the ground, pleading for her son to wake up. Crouched beside a riverbank, she rocks back and forth, shaken with grief. Her son\u2019s body, which has washed ashore, is motionless in the shallow water. One of his wrists is tied with rope. \u201cMy boy, I know it would be nice if you respond to me,\u201d she cries.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a video that has been seen widely within Myanmar \u2013 one Facebook video has been viewed more than a million times \u2013 but is also a scene that is tragically common. Videos and evidence of military killings are continually shared online \u2013 adding to the vast files of evidence being collected by rights groups, but also to the daily trauma that people are faced with.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/10\/myanmar-watches-a-mothers-grief-as-junta-soldiers-claim-another-victim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyi says she begged soldiers to release her son, but they refused. Footage of her mourning beside his body has been viewed widely, just one of many similar storiesKyi kneels on the ground, pleading for her son to wake up. Crouched beside a riverbank, s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2897,"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":[82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41558","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\/2897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41559,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41558\/revisions\/41559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}