{"id":198894,"date":"2007-10-01T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/01\/burma-thousands-mead-in-massacre\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:45:00","slug":"burma-thousands-mead-in-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/01\/burma-thousands-mead-in-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Thousands Mead in Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is bloody awful.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484903\">Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By MARCUS OSCARSSON &#8211; More by this author \u00bb Last updated at 15:04pm on 1st October 2007<\/p>\n<p>Comments Comments (69)<br \/>Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma&#8217;s ruling junta has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: &#8220;Many more people have been killed in recent days than you&#8217;ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is bloody awful. Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle By MARCUS OSCARSSON &#8211; More by this author \u00bb Last updated at 15:04pm on 1st October 2007 Comments Comments (69)Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1006,1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-military","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}