{"id":37502,"date":"2021-07-06T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37502"},"modified":"2021-07-06T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:12:13","slug":"the-police-defecting-as-a-new-civil-war-looms-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37502","title":{"rendered":"The police defecting as a new civil war looms in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As Myanmar heads towards a new civil war, the police are coming under intense pressure to decide which side they are on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Since the military coup on 1 February, police have been used to brutally suppress mass protests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Some protesters have taken up arms to fight back, forming civilian militias called the People\u2019s Defence Force.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC has been given rare access to the first group of police officers who defected and joined the people\u2019s side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Some of those officers now say they\u2019re prepared to use their weapons against their former colleagues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalists: Naw Dway Eh Khu and Maw Oo Myar<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by: Rebecca Henschke and Kelvin Brown <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited by: Kelvin Brown <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Open source: Myanmar Witness<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57739572\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Myanmar heads towards a new civil war, the police are coming under intense pressure to decide which side they are on. Since the military coup on 1 February, police have been used to brutally suppress mass protests. Some protesters have taken up arms to fight back, forming civilian militias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37502","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\/07\/119291041_p09nm5xw.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502","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=37502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}