Slain Japanese journalist's last Myanmar images shared after 15 years missing

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The family of a Japanese journalist killed while reporting on Myanmar's 2007 'Saffron Revolution' released his last pictures on Wednesday (April 26), sharing footage from a recently obtained video camera missing since his fatal shooting 15 years ago. The final pictures from 50-year-old Kenji Nagai during an anti-government protest were obtained by Myanmar-focused news outlet the Democratic Voice of Burma...

A screen shows unseen footage filmed by slain Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai, during an event to return his videocamera, lost during the coverage of the 2007 Saffron Revolution in Yangon, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand on April 26.

In the video, Nagai captures images of protesters in the commercial capital Yangon and the arrival of a truck of soldiers, before turning the lens on himself to record a piece to camera. She said the camera and footage would go back to Japan to be analysed and support a thorough investigation into her late brother's death, a case that had gone cold.

 

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