{"id":55729,"date":"2023-06-04T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/in-the-targets-of-the-junta-life-and-war-inside-rebel-held-myanmar"},"modified":"2023-06-04T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T08:00:08","slug":"in-the-targets-of-the-junta-life-and-war-inside-rebel-held-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55729","title":{"rendered":"In the targets of the junta: life and war inside rebel-held Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Myanmar\u2019s opposition controlled areas the risks of opposing the military leadership and the quiet hope that permeates daily life co-exist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/the-myanmar-junta-kills-and-the-rest-of-the-world-looks-away\">The Myanmar junta kills \u2026 and the rest of the world looks away<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a busy strip in eastern Myanmar, restaurants with bomb shelters serve sizzling plates of beef washed down with Belgian beer and French wine. Teenagers mingle in snooker halls, women relax in beauty salons and revolutionaries get inked in tattoo parlours.<\/p>\n<p>From dawn, steaming bowls of noodle soup are devoured in teashops and, come dusk, shaky bass echoes from a karaoke club. But unlike the country\u2019s heartland, this settlement has one notable absence: military rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/in-the-targets-of-the-junta-life-and-war-inside-rebel-held-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Myanmar\u2019s opposition controlled areas the risks of opposing the military leadership and the quiet hope that permeates daily life co-existThe Myanmar junta kills \u2026 and the rest of the world looks awayOn a busy strip in eastern Myanmar, restaurants wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3777,"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-55729","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\/55729","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\/3777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55729\/revisions\/55730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}