{"id":48615,"date":"2022-09-19T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T01:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T01:13:17","slug":"the-2021-myanmar-coup-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48615","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Myanmar coup explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s military has deployed brutal violence to crush dissent since taking power in a 2021 coup but resistance is growing<\/p>\n<p>On 1 February 2021, Myanmar\u2019s military took power in a coup, abruptly halting the country\u2019s fragile transition towards democracy.<\/p>\n<p>It justified the coup by alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election \u2013 which Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/aung-san-suu-kyis-party-returns-to-power-in-myanmar\">won by a landslide<\/a>. Independent observers have rejected such claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s military has deployed brutal violence to crush dissent since taking power in a 2021 coup but resistance is growingOn 1 February 2021, Myanmar\u2019s military took power in a coup, abruptly halting the country\u2019s fragile transition towards democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/48615","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48615\/revisions\/48616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}