{"id":29526,"date":"2021-03-09T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/shoot-me-instead-myanmar-nuns-plea-to-spare-protesters"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:26:04","slug":"shoot-me-instead-myanmar-nuns-plea-to-spare-protesters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29526","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shoot me instead\u2019: Myanmar nun\u2019s plea to spare protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng is photographed begging armed police officers not to shoot \u2018the children\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare \u201cthe children\u201d and take her life instead.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the Catholic nun in a simple white habit, her hands spread, pleading with the forces of the country\u2019s new junta as they prepared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/06\/myanmar-stop-military-killing-protesters-envoy-tells-security-council\">crack down on a protest<\/a>, has gone viral and won her praise in the majority-Buddhist country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/shoot-me-instead-myanmar-nuns-plea-to-spare-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng is photographed begging armed police officers not to shoot \u2018the children\u2019Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare \u201cthe childr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[919,82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526\/revisions\/29528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}