Slain journalist’s images surface

Final moments: Nagai (inset) trying to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon’s city centre on Sept 27, 2007. — Reuters

A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a street protest in Myanmar was handed over to his sister at a ceremony in Bangkok.

Kenji Nagai was recording the demonstration on Sept 27, 2007, in downtown Yangon – part of a peaceful anti-military uprising known as the Saffron Revolution – when soldiers arrived, dispersing the crowd with gunfire.