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"Please, don’t shoot or beat the children. They are young and very afraid of you," Catholic nun Sister Ann Rosa Nu Tawng tells security forces, shortly before they open fire on protesters at Myitkyina's St Columban’s Cathedral on March 8. (Myitkyina News Journal | AFP)

‘A sea of blood in the church’: Survivors recount Myitkyina’s lethal crackdown

Eyewitnesses describe how protesters were killed or maimed in the Kachin Sate capital on March 8 right after a Catholic nun knelt and implored security forces not to harm them.

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