Camera of Japanese journalist slain in Myanmar returned after 16 years


Noriko Ogawa, sister of the late Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai, who was shot dead in Yangon, Myanmar while covering the Saffron Revolution in 2007, receives his camera and footage from journalist Aye Chan Naing (left) at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok on April 26, 2023. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): When Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was shot dead by Myanmar troops as he covered anti-military protests in 2007, his video camera disappeared, along with the last images he filmed.

On Wednesday (April 26), 16 years and a secret journey out of Myanmar later, the camera and its contents were handed back to his family, who hope the footage will hold clues to the final moments of his life.

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