{"id":54564,"date":"2023-04-24T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/myanmar-senior-election-official-linked-to-junta-shot-dead-by-resistance-group"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:35:21","slug":"myanmar-senior-election-official-linked-to-junta-shot-dead-by-resistance-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54564","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: senior election official linked to junta shot dead by resistance group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killing in Yangon of Sai Kyaw Thu, a former lieutenant colonel, is confirmed by guerrilla group <\/p>\n<p>A top election official in Myanmar has been fatally shot in his car in Yangon, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule.<\/p>\n<p>Sai Kyaw Thu, the deputy director general of the military-appointed Union Election Commission, was shot multiple times on Saturday, according to the military\u2019s information office, media reports and a statement of responsibility from an urban guerrilla group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/myanmar-senior-election-official-linked-to-junta-shot-dead-by-resistance-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing in Yangon of Sai Kyaw Thu, a former lieutenant colonel, is confirmed by guerrilla group A top election official in Myanmar has been fatally shot in his car in Yangon, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule.Sai Kya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"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":[41,919,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54564","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\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54565,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54564\/revisions\/54565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}