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Limburg (AP) - The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing, paid tribute to a demonstrator in Myanmar who was shot by the military in his sermon on Maundy Thursday.
On Maundy Thursday, Christians around the world commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus and his twelve apostles shortly before his arrest and execution.
“Everything will be fine” said 19-year-old Ma Kyal Sin’s T-shirt, said Bätzing in a sermon in Limburg Cathedral on Thursday.
“But she wasn't naive.
Before joining the protests, she posted a message on Facebook in which she left her blood type and consent to donate her organs in case something should happen to her. "
She gave her life out of conviction, said the Limburg bishop.
My Kyal Sin was shot in the head in early March.
Since then, she has been revered as a heroine on social media.
The number of deaths in Myanmar since the coup two months ago has recently risen dramatically.
According to estimates by the prisoners' aid organization AAPP, at least 510 people have been killed by military force so far.
However, observers assume a high number of unreported cases.
On Saturday alone, the emergency services killed over 100 people.
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