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Maya Thwaite Wake Wang was supposed to be celebrating her 20th birthday on Thursday.
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Instead, she's fighting for her life in a hospital in Myanmar, the first known serious casualty off the ongoing protests against the country's military coup.
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She was shot in the back of their head when police clamped down on a peaceful protest in the capital on Tuesday.
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Video footage verified by Reuters shows my wife, Quite Frank, was struck in the back of the head with a live round and then being pulled away by her sister Maya.
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Tight annoy Although the army has security forces using only non lethal weapons.
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E thought they were shooting into the sky at first and I told my sister to go back and then she got shot.
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I did not think she got shot.
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At first I thought she fainted as she was angry, but after people had shouted and asked her to remove her helmet, then I realized she got shot after seeing her bleeding behind her head.
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I did not even know how I got here to the hospital after that, a doctor from the hospital told Reuters.
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She had lost significant brain function on was not likely to survive.
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E feel so heartbroken.
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We only have our mother left.
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Our father is already dead.
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I'm the eldest among four siblings While my sister is the youngest.
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My mother won't be able to stand that her youngest daughter is dying like this way also can't stand it as we only have this sister.
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I can't even describe it in words.
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Oh, well, God, shooting off the teenager has caused outrage across the country, particularly as many members off the protests Our Generation z they say they refused to let another generation experienced military rule.