Asean must step up to protect Myanmar's children: Jakarta Post contributors


Shoes being displayed with flowers in Mandalay, as part of the "Marching Shoes Strike" called on social media to protest against the demonstration against the military coup in Myanmar on April 8, 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Htoo Myat Win, 13, was playing around his house in Myanmar's northern Mandalay region when a stray bullet hit him. He died almost immediately.

On social media, heart-breaking footage showed Htoo Myat Win's father hugging his dead child, crying: "My son! My son was shot!"

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