Zarli Naing was the youngest of four girls from a poor farming family, which lived close to the great temple complex of Bagan. The only one of them who did well at school, she went on to qualify as a nurse and got a job at a hospital in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
May her spirit find peace.
Those who knew Zarli Naing say she was passionate about her work and hopeful for Myanmar’s future.
The coup unleashed a brutal war of attrition in the Burmese heartland, with uncountable casualties.
Zarli Naing’s story is just one of so many.
