{"id":3660,"date":"2007-09-26T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T02:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/i-support-the-people-of-burma\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T02:26:01","slug":"i-support-the-people-of-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"I Support the People of Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been paying attention to international affairs, there is a major protest (estimates of 100,000 people) against the military dictatorship in Burma,which is now called Myanmar. The protest, lead by Buddhist monks, has been peaceful, but tension is rising, and as I writing this post I just found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gUHqzgxTBxZ5Cg25E4lf7CfFL_sA\">4 monks have been killed<\/a> by the military.<\/p>\n<p>This dictatorship has been in place for 20 years, and the last major protest ended with the military killing thousands of protesters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/09\/26\/opinion\/main3299768.shtml\">You can learn more about the history of Burma\/Myanmar in this article. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of the protest from the AFP.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/burma-protests.jpg\" title=\"burma-protests.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/burma-protests.jpg\" alt=\"burma-protests.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Caption: &#8220;Buddhist monks protest by marching with a banner that reads, &#8220;We shall replace (crackdown) unjustice with justice&#8221; before police conduct a crackdown in downtown Yangon. Myanmar security forces used batons, tear gas and live rounds Wednesday in a violent crackdown on mass protests against the military junta, killing at least four people including three Buddhist monks.(AFP)&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/brownfemipower.com\/?p=1860\">You can also find more info. at Women of Color Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been paying attention to international affairs, there is a major protest (estimates of 100,000 people) against the military dictatorship in Burma,which is now called Myanmar. The protest, lead by Buddhist monks, has been peaceful, but tension &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-in-the-news","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}