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

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YANGON - 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 neighbour phoned to tell him his son, Mr 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.

Mr Wai Soe Hlaing is among many people who activists and families say have disappeared since Myanmar was plunged into turmoil after the military overthrew the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Sometimes they send food parcels and take it as a sign their relative is being held there if the package is accepted, a Human Rights Watch report said.

In a border town, 43-year-old activist Aung Nay Myo, who fled there from the north-western Sagaing region, said junta troops took his parents and siblings from their home in mid-December and he does not know where they were. The group is trying to help families search, asking recently released prisoners any names they remembered.

The teenager told his father he was going to travel to their home in the state capital Loikaw to check on the situation, but never came back, Mr Myint Aung said.

 

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