“You have weapons, we have nothing”

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It was a time of upheaval in the protest movement. After the military coup on February 1, primarily young people protested peacefully and happily for days in the country’s cities, then the police and the military took action against the demonstrators with increasing armed violence. They practically executed dozens of them with aimed headshots. Among them was 19-year-old Ma Kyal Sin in Mandalay, who became a martyr within hours, also due to the optimistic inscription on her T-shirt. “Everything will be OK” was written on the garment. But in Myanmar nothing was right anymore.

Blood soaked paths

The nun Ann Rose Nu Tawng belongs to the congregation of St. Francis Xavier in the diocese of Myitkyina in the north of the country. The name of the order comes from one of the first Jesuit missionaries who went to East Asia in the 16th century to spread the word of God there. Ann Rose Nu Tawng works in a clinic near the cathedral. The young demonstrators have already passed there several times to demand freedom for themselves and the regime’s prisoners.