Young males being disappeared by Myanmar security forces
Myanmar s security forces are arresting and forcibly disappearing thousands of people, especially boys and young men, in a sweeping bid to break the back of a three-month uprising against a military takeover.
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The Associated Press ·
Posted: May 05, 2021 3:46 PM ET | Last Updated: May 5
Anti-coup protesters flash the pro-democracy three-finger salute during a rally in Yangon, Myanmar on Tuesday. The ruling junta continues to face a challenge in the cities and towns of Myanmar, where street protests are still being held more than three months after it seized power.(The Associated Press)
This handout from Kachinwaves taken and released on May 5, 2021 shows people standing beside a portrait of Wai Phyo, also known as Thiha Thu, during his funeral after he was shot dead during a crackdown by security forces on demonstrations by protesters against the military coup in Hpakant in Myanmar s Kachin state. - AFP JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Myanmar’s security forces moved in and the street lamps went black. In house after house, people shut off their lights.
Huddled inside her home in Yangon, 19-year-old Shwe dared to peek out her window. A flashlight shone back, and a man’s voice ordered her not to look.
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Myanmar’s security forces moved in and the street lamps went black. In house after house, people shut off their lights. Darkness swallowed the block.
Huddled inside her home in this neighborhood of Yangon, 19-year-old Shwe dared to peek out her window into the inky night. A flashlight shone back, and a man’s voice ordered her not to look.
Two gunshots rang out. Then a man’s scream: “HELP!” When the military’s trucks finally rolled away, Shwe and her family emerged to look for her 15-year-old brother, worried about frequent abductions by security forces.
“I could feel my blood thumping,” she says. “I had a feeling that he might be taken.”