Myanmar's Grieving Mothers Pray for Revolution's Success
With thousands of their children killed or imprisoned, the country’s mothers are paying a high price for the military’s coup.
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With thousands of their children killed or imprisoned, the country’s mothers are paying a high price for the military’s coup.
They were accused of killing an informant and attacking regime targets in Yangon; more than 110 people have been condemned to die by junta courts.
RFA San San Aye of Dagon township in Myanmar’s Yangon region has four sons on death row in Insein prison. They were among 18 people convicted by court-martial for the alleged killing on March 29 of Zaw Min, a pro-military resident. Junta-controlled media said Zaw Min was killed by knives and machetes by a group of 40 people from the same ward, and his body was thrown into a fire pit on the street on March 29. San San Aye insists her sons are innocent. With all of her sons whom she relied on imprisoned, she is struggling for her own survival and to visit her sons regularly in ...