Aung Nay Myo, a protest organizer and satirical writer from Myanmar, drinks tea as he looks at a photo of his father on his phone inside a temporary shelter at an undisclosed location in a town in a country bordering Myanmar, January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
(Reuters) - 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, 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.
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