A year after Myanmar's coup, families of detainees search for answers
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The AAPP estimates more than 8,000 people are detained inprisons and interrogation centres, including Ms. Suu Kyi and most of her cabinet, while about 1,500 have been killed
Nearly a year after his son was last seenbeing 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 February 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 non-profit that has been documenting arrests and killings.
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