The final scenes recorded by Japanese reporter Kenji Nagai, who was killed during street protests in Myanmar, have emerged some 15 years after he died.
On Wednesday, his camera was returned to his family by the Democratic Voice of Burma, a local news outlet involved in its recovery, atAccording to Aye Chan Naing, the news outlet’s editor in chief, the camera was transported over the border between the two countries after the militaryHe declined to identity the person who provided the Democratic Voice of Burma with the item, citing concerns for their safety.
The video was apparently taken by Nagai just moments before he was fatally shot. He films demonstrators peacefully gathering in the streets as a truckload of soldiers pulls up. At one point, he turns the lens onto himself. “The army has arrived. The army is over there. I think they are heavily armed,” the bespectacled journalist, dressed in a checkered shirt, shorts and flip-flops, says into the camera.
The reemergence of his footage comes as Myanmar is once again living in the shadow of military rule, after a short interregnum under civilian government. The junta has clamped down on free expression, imprisoned journalists and revoked the licenses of independent news outlets, The Washington Post
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