{"id":66997,"date":"2024-09-29T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/28\/snatched-from-their-beds-taken-on-the-streets-the-young-men-in-myanmar-forced-to-fight-the-juntas-losing-war"},"modified":"2024-09-29T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:00:08","slug":"snatched-from-their-beds-taken-on-the-streets-the-young-men-in-myanmar-forced-to-fight-the-juntas-losing-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66997","title":{"rendered":"Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets &#8211; the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta\u2019s losing war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty \u2013 leaving distraught families unaware of their fate<\/p>\n<p>Than Htun, 29, was still in bed when the men came to his home in Yangon to take him away. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t prepare anything. They just ordered him to bring his national identity card, a copy of his census registration and two sets of clothes,\u201d recalled his sister, Khin May.<\/p>\n<p>The group of soldiers and local officials were forcibly conscripting Than Htun into Myanmar\u2019s military. He would be made to fight for the country\u2019s widely loathed junta in its fierce war against pro-democracy fighters and ethnic armed groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/28\/snatched-from-their-beds-taken-on-the-streets-the-young-men-in-myanmar-forced-to-fight-the-juntas-losing-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty \u2013 leaving distraught families unaware of their fateThan Htun, 29, was still in bed when the men came to his home in Yangon to take him away. \u201cHe c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4429,"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-66997","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\/66997","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\/4429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66997\/revisions\/66998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}