{"id":4504,"date":"2021-03-25T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:43:14","slug":"yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2021\/03\/25\/yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yangon Becomes Battle Zone as Myanmar Junta Enforces Martial Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to Article: Yangon becomes battle zone as Myanmar junta enforces martial law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of Myanmar\u2019s biggest city has turned into a battle zone, with burning barricades and security forces firing at unarmed anti-coup protesters. The junta has increasingly deployed heavier force to quell the demonstrations, with more than 200 protesters reported to have been killed in the crackdown. Sunday was the deadliest day since the coup, with a local monitoring group documenting more than 70 people killed \u2013 the bulk of them in the Hlaing Tharyar township. The junta on Sunday imposed martial law on Hlaing Tharyar and later on other protest hotspot townships \u2013 effectively placing nearly 2 million people under complete control of military commanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardline anti-coup protesters had camped on a bridge leading into the township\u2019s main roads on Tuesday evening, wearing hard hats, gas masks and carrying shields. They had also erected barricades made out of tyres, wood, sandbags and bamboo poles. Some of those barricades were set on fire, leading to heavy black smoke rising above the mostly deserted streets. Some protesters threw petrol bombs at the security forces, but otherwise appeared defenceless as they hid behind makeshift shields. In a residential area of a neighbouring township, video footage verified by AFP showed volleys of gunfire last about 15 seconds. Information on arrests and violence has been trickling out of the conflict areas on social media \u2013 the flow slowed by the junta\u2019s blocking mobile data access. Much of Myanmar has not been able to use their mobile internet since the early hours of Monday. The country is also placed under a nightly internet shutdown for eight hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 200 people have died in anti-coup unrest, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a local monitoring group. But protesters continued taking to the streets on Wednesday, with local media broadcasting images of people marching through northern Hpakant and central Sagaing region. The United Nations on Tuesday again condemned the deaths in Myanmar, adding that it was worried about reports of torture and deaths of those in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to Article: Yangon becomes battle zone as Myanmar junta enforces martial law Part of Myanmar\u2019s biggest city has turned into a battle zone, with burning barricades and security forces firing at unarmed anti-coup protesters. The junta has increasingly deployed heavier force to quell the demonstrations, with more than 200 protesters reported to have been killed in the crackdown. Sunday… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}