{"id":60153,"date":"2023-11-28T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/nov\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-myanmars-military-the-generals-are-in-trouble"},"modified":"2023-11-28T03:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:54:24","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-myanmars-military-the-generals-are-in-trouble-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60153","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Myanmar\u2019s military: the generals are in trouble | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic armed groups have scored remarkable successes in the last month. But the army will not cede power easily<\/p>\n<p>When Myanmar\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">launched a coup<\/a> almost three years ago, snatching back the limited portion of control they had ceded to elected civilian leaders, it looked like the same old story. Once again, the generals were crushing the democratic aspirations of their people.<\/p>\n<p>To widespread surprise, perhaps most of all the military\u2019s, they failed to stamp out the resistance. What began as a courageous campaign of civil disobedience led to tens of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v45\/n23\/francis-wade\/after-the-coup\">civilians joining<\/a> armed groups, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/30\/world\/asia\/myanmar-jungle-insurgency.html\">including people\u2019s defence forces<\/a> (PDFs) set up by the national unity government formed from the remnants of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for&nbsp;Democracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/nov\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-myanmars-military-the-generals-are-in-trouble\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic armed groups have scored remarkable successes in the last month. But the army will not cede power easilyWhen Myanmar\u2019s military launched a coup almost three years ago, snatching back the limited portion of control they had ceded to elected civil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[919,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","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\/60153","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60154,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60153\/revisions\/60154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}