{"id":52275,"date":"2023-02-01T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/myanmars-air-force-targeted-by-sanctions-two-years-on-from-military-coup-protest-strike"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:50:53","slug":"myanmar-junta-hit-by-western-sanctions-as-silent-strikes-mark-coup-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52275","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta hit by western sanctions as \u2018silent strikes\u2019 mark coup anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK, US, Canada and Australia have announced a range of measures aimed at punishing Myanmar\u2019s military<\/p>\n<p>The UK, US and Canada have imposed fresh sanctions against Myanmar\u2019s military, including some measures aimed at stopping the supply of aviation fuel to its air force, which is accused of indiscriminately bombing civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were announced two years on from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">2021 February coup<\/a>, in which Myanmar\u2019s military ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, detaining her and plunging the country into turmoil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/myanmars-air-force-targeted-by-sanctions-two-years-on-from-military-coup-protest-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK, US, Canada and Australia have announced a range of measures aimed at punishing Myanmar\u2019s militaryThe UK, US and Canada have imposed fresh sanctions against Myanmar\u2019s military, including some measures aimed at stopping the supply of aviation fue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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":[645,244,319,82,1906,61,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-canada","category-foreign-policy","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52286,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275\/revisions\/52286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}