Young males being disappeared by Myanmar security forces

Myanmar’s security forces moved in and the street lamps went black.

House after house, people shut off their lights.

Huddled inside her Yangon home, 19-year-old Shwe dared to peek out her window. A flashlight shone back, and a man’s voice ordered her not to look.

Two gunshots rang out. Then a man’s scream.

When the military’s trucks finally rolled away, Shwe and her family emerged to look for her 15-year-old brother.

“I could feel my blood thumping,” she says. “I had

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