{"id":6241,"date":"2024-07-31T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2024-07-31T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:31:49","slug":"myanmar-junta-extends-state-of-emergency-by-6-months-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/myanmar-junta-extends-state-of-emergency-by-6-months-state-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta extends state of emergency by 6 months: state TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myanmar&#8217;s junta on Wednesday extended extend a state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh elections the junta has promised to hold.<\/p>\n<p>All the members of the junta-stacked National Defence and Security Council &#8220;unanimously decided to extend the period of the state of emergency for another six months,&#8221; according to broadcaster MRTV.<\/p>\n<p>The military seized power after making unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in 2020 elections which Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>It has extended the state of emergency multiple times since as it struggles to crush armed opposition to its coup by established ethnic minority armed groups and newer pro-democracy &#8220;People&#8217;s Defence Forces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar&#8217;s military-drafted 2008 constitution, which the junta has said is still in force, requires authorities to hold fresh elections within six months of a state of emergency being lifted.<br \/>\nSince the coup fighting between the military and its opponents has forced 2.7 million people to flee their home, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar&#8217;s junta on Wednesday extended extend a state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh elections the junta has promised to hold. All the members of the junta-stacked National Defence and Security Council &#8220;unanimously decided to extend the period of the state of emergency for another six months,&#8221; according to broadcaster MRTV. The military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}