‘I still get nightmares’: Myanmar students traumatised after beatings in jail

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‘I still get nightmares’: Myanmar students traumatised after beatings in jail

Within hours of taking part in one of the largest student-led anti-coup protests to be held in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon last month, 20-year-old Han had been thrown into jail by security forces.The journalism student stayed locked up for more than three weeks, alongside some 300 other university students who took part in the demonstration on March 3, before the military junta released them all without explanation on March 24.Han, wh…