{"id":62198,"date":"2024-02-28T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/28\/we-will-turn-the-gun-on-the-military-hiding-out-against-conscription-in-myanmar"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:08:22","slug":"we-will-turn-the-gun-on-the-military-hiding-out-against-conscription-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62198","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will turn the gun on the military\u2019: hiding out against conscription in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One potential conscript describes how fear has gripped Yangon as people try to flee ahead of a law imposed by a hated junta<\/p>\n<p><em>The interviewee, 27, lives with his wife and 15-month-old son in an industrial area of Yangon. Until last month he was working in a garment factory. He is among the millions of people who could be conscripted under a law due to be enforced in mid-April by the military junta. He, like many across the country, is desperately searching for a way to escape.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The military, which is fighting against anti-coup groups, is widely opposed by the public and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ungeneva.org\/en\/news-media\/news\/2023\/08\/83767\/increasingly-brazen-war-crimes-evident-myanmar-reports-independent\">accused of war crimes<\/a> against its own people. Two-thirds of the country is gripped by conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/28\/we-will-turn-the-gun-on-the-military-hiding-out-against-conscription-in-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One potential conscript describes how fear has gripped Yangon as people try to flee ahead of a law imposed by a hated juntaThe interviewee, 27, lives with his wife and 15-month-old son in an industrial area of Yangon. Until last month he was working in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4147,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/62198","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\/4147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62199,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62198\/revisions\/62199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}