‘They are shooting at our kids’ heads’: in Myanmar, a dead 17-year-old’s family mourns the loss of hope

Through the haze of grief and pain, there is one moment of clarity to which the family of Khant Nyar Hein keep returning: they have lost everything since they lost him.The 17-year-old, a first-year medical student, was killed by Myanmar security forces on Sunday, one of the more than 224 residents of Southeast Asia’s poorest nation who have died while opposing the February 1 military coup that unseated the democratic government of Aung San Suu Kyi.After his funeral on Tuesday, Khant’s family,…