
The children who are locked up for the political beliefs of their parents
CNN
Increasingly, Myanmar's military is going after another group of people to sow fear among the population and make them fall in line: the family members of dissidents.
Hiding in the mosquito-infested jungles of Myanmar in a makeshift tent with her father, her young world has been torn apart.
"I want to sleep with mummy, but the police have taken her," she said in an audio clip recorded by her father, Soe Htay, on his phone and sent to CNN in early August.

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