{"id":46769,"date":"2022-07-27T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/we-are-not-afraid-anti-junta-groups-rail-against-myanmar-executions"},"modified":"2022-07-27T00:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:16:59","slug":"we-are-not-afraid-anti-junta-groups-rail-against-myanmar-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46769","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are not afraid\u2019: anti-junta groups rail against Myanmar executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State killings provoke horror and fear of wider crackdown on determined protest movement<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night at 8pm, the familiar, defiant sound of clashing pots and pans returned to the streets of Yangon. In the aftermath of last year\u2019s coup, the same din was heard nightly as people demanded the return of democracy \u2013 until the military launched brutal crackdowns against any such acts of dissent. Anyone suspected of opposing the junta risks arrest, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>It was the recent execution of four prisoners that drove people to revive the protest regardless. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a rapper and former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, and the prominent democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, known as Jimmy, were among those killed. They had been sentenced under anti-terror laws in January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/we-are-not-afraid-anti-junta-groups-rail-against-myanmar-executions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State killings provoke horror and fear of wider crackdown on determined protest movementOn Monday night at 8pm, the familiar, defiant sound of clashing pots and pans returned to the streets of Yangon. In the aftermath of last year\u2019s coup, the same din &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3194,"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":[53,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","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\/46769","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\/3194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46770,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46769\/revisions\/46770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}