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Myanmar nun kneels between police and protesters, pleading for peace shortly before killings resume
A nun has knelt in front of policemen in Myanmar and pleaded with them to stop shooting protesters demonstrating against last month’s military coup.
Key points:
- The nun asked police to treat protesters “like family members”
- At least two protesters were fatally shot and many others injured soon after the nun’s plea
- Sister Tawng was later blinded by tear gas as she attempted to move the injured to her clinic
Video showed Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng in a white robe and black habit kneeling on a street in the northern town of Myitkyina, speaking to two policemen who knelt with her.
Ultimately, however, she did not succeed.
Sister Tawng and one of the policemen are seen touching their foreheads to the ground, but gunfire started soon afterwards.
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