ONE Championship’s Aung La N Sang mourns death of Burmese taekwondo champion Kyal Sin, 19, at hands of Myanmar military
- Kyal Sin, also known as Angel, was a taekwondo instructor and champion in Mandalay, where she was protesting the military coup
- ‘She loved martial arts … having a daughter myself, my heart aches [for] her father and her family,’ says MMA champ N Sang
ONE Championship’s “Burmese Python” Aung La N Sang has called on the United Nations for help amid the escalating crisis in Myanmar following last month’s military coup.
Among the dead was 19-year-old protester Angel – also known as Kyal Sin – who was a student, and a taekwondo champion and instructor in Mandalay, the country’s second largest city. Wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the message “everything will be OK”, she was shot in the head by a military sniper.
“It wasn’t a stray bullet that killed her but a precise head shot,” ONE light heavyweight champ N Sang wrote in a social media post on Thursday.
“Having a daughter myself, my heart aches [for] her father and her family. She loved martial arts and she died wearing a shirt that read ‘Everything will be OK’.”
Protesters held a funeral procession for Kyal in the streets of Mandalay on Thursday.