A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a street protest in Myanmar was handed over to his sister at a ceremony in Bangkok.
A missing video camera that was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was killed while filming a street protest in Myanmar has been found nearly 15 years later.The 50-year-old journalist was one of ten people who were killed when soldiers arrived to disperse the crowd with gunfire.The camera when found still had the original tape
In a chilling five-minute video clip that Kenji Nagai filmed at a demonstration in Yangon in 2007, the images showed the chaos that erupted shortly before the 50-year-old journalist was gunned down and killed.
Journalist Kenji Nagai was shot dead by security forces in September 2007 while covering a large-scale demonstration against the military regime in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. The video camera he was filming at the time of the shooting was subsequently unknown. It was returned to the bereaved family in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, on the 9th because the Myanmar media had obtained a camera believed to belong to Mr. Nagai. The camera had about five minutes of footage of civilians and monks protesting.