{"id":54267,"date":"2023-04-12T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/myanmar-airstrike-on-civilians-sparks-global-outcry-as-witnesses-describe-attack"},"modified":"2023-04-13T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:05:16","slug":"myanmar-airstrike-on-civilians-sparks-global-outcry-as-witnesses-describe-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54267","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar airstrike on civilians sparks global outcry as witnesses describe attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll in Sagaing could reach 100 in what could be deadliest junta attack since coup in 2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">The 2021 Myanmar coup explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A series of deadly airstrikes by Myanmar\u2019s military on a civilian crowd has sparked widespread condemnation, as witnesses recounted the horror of the attack that could be the junta\u2019s deadliest since a coup two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/airstrikes-by-burmese-military-kill-dozens-at-anti-junta-event-sagaing\">initial death toll stood at 53<\/a> from Tuesday\u2019s attacks on a village ceremony in Sagaing region at which women and children were present, but later tallies reported by independent media raised it to about 100.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/myanmar-airstrike-on-civilians-sparks-global-outcry-as-witnesses-describe-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll in Sagaing could reach 100 in what could be deadliest junta attack since coup in 2021The 2021 Myanmar coup explained in 30 secondsA series of deadly airstrikes by Myanmar\u2019s military on a civilian crowd has sparked widespread condemnation, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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-54267","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\/54267","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54267\/revisions\/54282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}