{"id":636,"date":"2007-10-20T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/general\/women-panties-for-peace-in-burma\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T21:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:19:21","slug":"women-panties-for-peace-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/women-panties-for-peace-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Panties for Peace in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowpublic.com\/panties_for_peace\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pantiesforpeace.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the brutal crackdown as a part of &#8220;Panties for Peace&#8221; campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lannaactionforburma.blogspot.com\/\">Lanna Action for Burma<\/a> organized the action dubbed &#8220;Panties for Peace&#8221; campaign and started sending and delivering the panties this week, and has requested all the women to post post, deliver or fling your panties at the closest Burmese Embassy. <\/p>\n<p>The group, Lanna Action for Burma, says the country&#8217;s superstitious generals, especially junta leader General Than Shwe, also believe that contact with women&#8217;s underwear saps them of power. <\/p>\n<p>The group said the campaign is a chance for women to take away the power of the military junta, which received worldwide condemnation for violently suppressing the pro-democracy protest on Sept. 26 and 27 resulting in a number of deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, &#8220;Panties for Peace&#8221; campaign was linked to &#8220;Save Darfur&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wikipedia doesn&#8217;t have any information of this campaign. I tried looking for more information on this campaign but could not find any thing useful.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the brutal crackdown as a part of &#8220;Panties for Peace&#8221; campaign. The Lanna Action for Burma organized the action dubbed &#8220;Panties for Peace&#8221; campaign and started sending and delivering the panties this week, and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[68,190],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-lifestyle","tag-chaddis","tag-panties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3vNl0-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}