{"id":186371,"date":"2021-06-01T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/rise-of-armed-civilian-groups-in-myanmar-fuels-fears-of-civil-war"},"modified":"2021-06-01T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:00:37","slug":"rise-of-armed-civilian-groups-in-myanmar-fuels-fears-of-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/rise-of-armed-civilian-groups-in-myanmar-fuels-fears-of-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of grassroots people\u2019s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military<\/p><p>Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country\u2019s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to protect themselves from a relentless campaign of military violence.<\/p><p>Conflict has raged for decades in Myanmar\u2019s borderlands, where myriad ethnic armed groups are fighting with the military for greater autonomy. Since February\u2019s coup, however, dozens of new, grassroots people\u2019s defence forces have emerged to oppose the junta, with battles occurring in areas of the country that were previously peaceful.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/myanmar-total-chevron-gas-dividend-payments-military\">Myanmar: fossil fuel giants cut payments to junta but gas still flows <\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/rise-of-armed-civilian-groups-in-myanmar-fuels-fears-of-civil-war\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/rise-of-armed-civilian-groups-in-myanmar-fuels-fears-of-civil-war\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of grassroots people\u2019s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal militaryMyanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country\u2019s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to protect themsel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1589,6527,2038,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186481,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186371\/revisions\/186481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}