{"id":52257,"date":"2023-01-31T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/31\/monster-from-the-sky-two-years-on-from-coup-myanmar-junta-increases-airstrikes-on-civilians"},"modified":"2023-01-31T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T09:00:42","slug":"monster-from-the-sky-two-years-on-from-coup-myanmar-junta-increases-airstrikes-on-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52257","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monster from the sky\u2019: two years on from coup, Myanmar junta increases airstrikes on civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People across the country now live under constant threat of attacks from the skies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">Myanmar\u2019s military coup explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was early evening, and people had gathered at a local pandal in Moe Dar Lay village, in Myanmar\u2019s Sagaing Region, to prepare for a Buddhist novice ordination ceremony the following day. Just as they began to cook, fighter jets appeared in the sky. Then the sound of explosions boomed through the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jets dropped the bombs out of nowhere,\u201d said Naing Ko*, who was just a few houses from the pandal when the attack happened on 19 January. He recalled grabbing his wife and son and rushing to see what had happened. His parent\u2019s home, a few kilometres away, was engulfed in flames. His mother, 68, was among eight people killed. She died instantly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/31\/monster-from-the-sky-two-years-on-from-coup-myanmar-junta-increases-airstrikes-on-civilians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People across the country now live under constant threat of attacks from the skiesMyanmar\u2019s military coup explained in 30 secondsIt was early evening, and people had gathered at a local pandal in Moe Dar Lay village, in Myanmar\u2019s Sagaing Region, to pre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3547,"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":[82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","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\/52257","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\/3547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52257\/revisions\/52258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}