The pastor of the Oakland Burmese Mission Baptist Church had his Sunday service completely planned. As the protests in his home country erupted into violence, and reports of attacks on monasteries, shots fired, and a rising death toll came in, Lone Wah Lazum wrote his sermon and picked out songs for his church to sing. He decided he would not discuss the events in Myanmar — he didn’t want to bring up bad memories for his congregation.

Early Sunday morning, Mr. Lazum changed his mind. Claire Trageser (’09) reports for Novometro.

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Photo by Mary Lang.