Japanese Photojournalist 'deliberately shot'.

via The Online Photographer.

I just came across this shocking report in The Home of Attila


It contained a link to a YouTube video showing Japanese photojournalist being deliberately killed by Burmese troops.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUUQi1ooEAs

September 29, 2007

Video shows Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai ‘being shot deliberately’

Filed under: Burma — Atilla89 @ 7:16 pm

I’m sure that many of you have been watching the situation in Burma very closely. Once again I really hope these protesters are successful and overthrow the military. Anyway, here’s the shocking video of Japanese journalist, Kenji Nagai being deliberately shot through the heart. This video does contain disturbing scenes.

Here is more on the subject from the UK Times.

Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has been aired on Japanese television – horrifying a nation and raising official suspicion that the 50-year old photo-journalist was murdered by Burmese troops (writes Leo Lewis in Tokyo).

The shaky, indistinct moments of footage appear to show Nagai, who was on the edge of a crowd of panic-stricken demonstrators, shoved violently to the ground by a soldier and shot dead at point-blank range.

The crowd flees, leaving behind a visibly agonised figure believed to be Nagai – dressed casually in shorts and flip-flops – on his back in the street. In his right hand is a video camera, held above the ground to protect it from the fall.

A loud crack is audible as a soldier points his rifle at the prone figure before launching himself at the dispersing crowd of protesters.

A doctor at the Japanese embassy in Burma confirmed a bullet entered Nagai’s body from the lower right side of his chest, pierced his heart and exited from his back.

The footage, say Japanese experts, squarely contradicts the official Burmese explanation of Nagai’s death – that he was killed by a “stray bullet”.

In the few seconds before he was killed, Nagai appeared to being filming the Burmese military as it faced down the crowd. One of the soldiers seems to spot him doing so, and launches his deadly response.