{"id":15348,"date":"2025-04-02T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/myanmars-military-government-announces-temporary-ceasefire-to-aid-quake-efforts\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:05:56","slug":"myanmars-military-government-announces-temporary-ceasefire-to-aid-quake-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/myanmars-military-government-announces-temporary-ceasefire-to-aid-quake-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s military government announces temporary ceasefire to aid quake efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm8zzbqai004s2bqe1dppc12b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Myanmar\u2019s ruling military government has announced a temporary ceasefire in operations against armed opposition groups to aid recovery efforts following Friday\u2019s devastating earthquake.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm8zzceyu00043j6nv9wsvg2h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The truce will run from April 2 to April 22, state-run MRTV said on Wednesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm8zzbw8z00003j6n6mlffthk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            More than 2,700 people have died in Myanmar following Friday\u2019s quake, the government says. Hundreds more remain missing, meaning the death toll is expected to rise.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9004usv00093j6n2ijkx8in@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The country has also been embroiled in civil war for four years sparked by a bloody and economically destructive military coup, which has seen junta forces battle rebel groups across the country.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm901rosx00063b6mp1hv587n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The coup and ensuing conflict has battered its health infrastructure, leaving it ill-equipped to deal with major natural disasters.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9007l9x000e3j6nf8plxcui@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Swathes of the country lie outside the control of the military junta and are a run by a patchwork of ethnic rebels and militias, making compiling reliable information extremely difficult.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9007jtu000c3j6ntkjw1d3z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            MRTV also reported Wednesday that chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) Min Aung Hlaing will attend a regional summit in Thailand on April 3-4 to discuss the respinse to the earthquake.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm8zzbqai004t2bqe3v6hdn52@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <i>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s ruling military government has announced a temporary ceasefire in operations against armed opposition groups&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}