{"id":45156,"date":"2022-06-04T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T06:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/myanmar-military-accused-of-torching-hundreds-of-homes-in-three-day-blitz"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T06:25:38","slug":"myanmar-military-accused-of-torching-hundreds-of-homes-in-three-day-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45156","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military accused of torching hundreds of homes in three-day blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columns of smoke seen rising from villages along 8km stretch in drone footage from country\u2019s north amid opposition to regime<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country\u2019s north, local media and residents said, as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.<\/p>\n<p>The Sagaing region has seen fierce fighting and bloody reprisals since the coup last year, with local \u201cPeople\u2019s Defence Force\u201d (PDF) members clashing regularly with junta troops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/myanmar-military-accused-of-torching-hundreds-of-homes-in-three-day-blitz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columns of smoke seen rising from villages along 8km stretch in drone footage from country\u2019s north amid opposition to regimeMyanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country\u2019s north, local media and resident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"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":[41,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-myanmar"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45156","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\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45156\/revisions\/45157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}