Myanmar's military investigates a 'war crime' in an era of reform

Women pose while holding portraits of their killed relatives (L-R) Aik Sai, Aik Maung and Aik Lort after their bodies were found in a grave last June at Mong Yaw village in Lashio, Myanmar July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

MONG YAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - The first and second bodies pulled from the shallow grave in northern Myanmar didn't belong to Aik Chin's missing son. Nor, he prayed, did the third, whose face was unrecognisable from a severe beating.

But then Aik Chin checked the corpse's fingertips - his 17-year-old son had lost one in a childhood accident - and his legs began to buckle.