In March of this year, Sr. Ann Rose Nu Tawng stood between life and death, telling armed soldiers in her native Myanmar that if they wanted to shoot protesters, they would have to go through her first.
Now, Sr. Ann is once again standing between life and death, assisting patients with the coronavirus.
Her plea to spare protesters was ignored, and in the end, Sr. Ann had to retrieve bodies of slain protesters.
“I ran to where the soldiers were, like a madman, like a mother hen protecting her chicks. I didn't even realize I could be in danger myself. I just didn’t want people to get killed,” Sr. Ann recently told Radio Free Asia.
Since the protests in Myitkyina, where Sr. Ann lives, have tapered off because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the suppression and mass arrests of demonstrators, the nun has begun nursing sick patients at the city’s Catholic Missionary Clinic and in remote Kachin state villages.
“There are people with COVID symptoms, but there are no test centers, and people have no money to take tests,” Sr. Ann told the news service. “They also lack knowledge about how to stay away from one another. There are a lot of people who don’t know how to protect themselves.”
RFA reported:
