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Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2021 / 08:06 am (CNA).- A religious sister in northern Burma knelt before police on Monday, begging them not to use violence against protesters.
In a video, Sr. Ann Rose Nu Tawng, a member of the Sisters of St. Francis Xavier, can be seen speaking March 8 to two kneeling police officers in the city of Myitkyina, the capital of Burma’s northern Kachin State.
Speaking to Reuters, Tawng said: “I begged them not to hurt the protesters, but to treat them kindly, like family members.”
She said that senior officers had told her that they were just clearing the street. In the video, the sister and a police officer can be seen touching their foreheads to the ground.
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