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A year after Myanmar coup, families of detainees search for answers

43-year-old activist Aung Nay Myo, who fled from the northwestern Sagaing region, said junta troops took his parents and siblings from their home in mid-December and he does not know where they are. | REUTERS

By Thu Thu Aung
Reuters

Jan 29, 2022

Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive.

One night last April, a neighbor phoned to tell him his son, Wai Soe Hlaing, a young father who ran a phone shop in Yangon, had been detained in connection with protests against the Feb. 1 military coup.

They traced the 31-year-old to a local police station, according to Win Hlaing and The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a nonprofit that has been documenting arrests and killings.

A year after Myanmar coup, families of detainees search for answers

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