[April 27, AFP]The video camera that Kenji Nagai (50 years old at the time), a journalist who was shot and killed by security forces while covering an anti-government demonstration in Myanmar in 2007, was in his hands until the end has been removed. It was returned to the bereaved family on the 26th.

Nagai died on September 27, 2007, when the military opened fire on demonstrators while reporting in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, and the whereabouts of the camera have since disappeared.

On this day at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, Myanmar’s independent broadcaster “Voice of Democracy in Burma (DVB)” filmed Mr. Nagai’s younger sister, Noriko Ogawa. I handed it over. The last video taken by Nagai remained on the camera.

Ogawa said, “I think my brother has been waiting for (this day) too,” and “I would like to place an offering in front of his grave.”

No charges have been filed in Myanmar over Nagai’s death, with authorities calling it an “accident.”

Meanwhile, an autopsy conducted in Japan revealed that Nagai was shot at close range, about 1 meter away.

DVB Editor-in-Chief Aye Chan Naing said he could not discuss the details of where the camera was obtained because it is necessary to protect information sources in Myanmar, which is under military rule, but added that he obtained it from a good citizen. only said.

Ogawa plans to submit the remaining footage to the Japanese authorities as evidence that the death was not an accident. (c)AFP