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YANGON, Jan 28 ― Almost a year after she knelt in the dust to beg Myanmar police not to shoot anti-coup demonstrators, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng still shakes at the memory of the day she says God saved her. A photo of the Catholic nun in a simple white habit, her hands spread, pleading with junta...

YANGON, Jan 28 ― Almost a year after she knelt in the dust to beg Myanmar police not to shoot anti-coup demonstrators, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng still shakes at the memory of the day she says God saved her.

In the confusion and chaos she had no idea the photo had been taken, or the impact it would have, she told AFP. The daughter of a pastor father and a teacher mother, she was forced to flee her home when she was nine, with a fear of soldiers now imprinted in her brain that she worries is being repeated in children today.

More than 1,400 civilians have been killed and over 10,000 arrested, according to a local monitoring group.Sister Ann Rose has discovered there is a price to pay for publicly standing up to the junta.

 

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