Four people – a young couple, a veteran photographer and a nurse – died last month as a result of the conflict in Myanmar. The young couple was giddy with excitement on the eve of their wedding and planned to spend the night with relatives in Thea Taw village before tying the knot in a ceremony the following day. However, the couple was captured by Junta soldiers and tortured before being killed. Ko Pay, a comrade-in-arms of Ma Cho's, was shot in the leg and seized by the troops, and Ma Cho followed him, pleading with the junta soldiers that he was her fiance - the kind of love that makes two people inseparable, even in the face of danger. Ko Pay was killed first, in front of Ma Cho, and then they killed her by slitting her throat with a knife. Aung Maung, the head of the Southern YSO People's Defense Force, said he would fight to avenge their deaths. Three hours

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