{"id":42756,"date":"2022-03-22T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/22\/hundreds-of-children-detained-by-the-myanmar-military-minister-says"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:00:43","slug":"hundreds-of-children-detained-by-the-myanmar-military-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42756","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of children detained by the Myanmar military, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whereabouts of children taken by the military since the 2021 coup are mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of children have been detained by the Myanmar military since it seized power more than one year ago, with many held ransom by soldiers and police who are seeking to arrest their relatives, according to a minister of the country\u2019s National Unity Government.<\/p>\n<p>Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, minister of Women, Youths and Children Affairs Ministry in the NUG, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/myanmars-junta-vies-with-critic-of-coup-for-seat-on-un-assembly\">formed last year by elected lawmakers to challenge the junta<\/a>, said 287 children under the age of 18 had been detained since 1 February 2021. Most had been held in police station detention centres, and some in prisons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/22\/hundreds-of-children-detained-by-the-myanmar-military-minister-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereabouts of children taken by the military since the 2021 coup are mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla SoeHundreds of children have been detained by the Myanmar military since it seized power more than one year ago, with many held ranso&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2975,"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":[59,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-myanmar","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\/42756","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\/2975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions\/42757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}