{"id":36092,"date":"2021-06-18T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=36092"},"modified":"2021-06-18T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T23:00:07","slug":"myanmar-who-are-the-ethnic-armies-training-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=36092","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: Who are the ethnic armies training protesters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Myanmar has seen violence and chaos ever since the military staged a coup on 1 February, as security forces brutally clamp down on pro-democracy protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Now, many protesters are being trained by ethnic armed groups which have been fighting the military government since the country became independent from British rule in 1948. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Clashes have also erupted between some militias and the government&#8217;s security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Who are the ethnic armed groups of Myanmar, and could they play a role in toppling the junta? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Grace Tsoi, Paul Organe, Tui McLean and Zeyar Htun<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57523916\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar has seen violence and chaos ever since the military staged a coup on 1 February, as security forces brutally clamp down on pro-democracy protesters. Now, many protesters are being trained by ethnic armed groups which have been fighting the military government since the country became independent from British rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118976556_p09lvwgp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}