Nun Tries to Stop Attack on Protesters by Myanmar Police: ‘Just Shoot Me if You Want To’ ucatholic.com

On Monday, Sister Ann Roza Nu Tawng knelt down in front of heavily armed riot officers in the northern city of Myitkyina in Myanmar. She begged the officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead.

“I knelt down begging them not to shoot and torture the children, but to shoot me and kill me instead.”

Protestors took to the streets of the capital city of the northern state of Kachin wearing hard hats and carrying homemade shields. When Sister Ann Roza noticed riot officers massing around the protestors, she and two other sisters took to the streets to plead with them to leave…

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