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| Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | |
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By : Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com) 19 Feb- Eyewitnesses report seeing a team of Japanese police in Rangoon, believed to be looking into the death of a Japanese journalist. The team is thought to be investigating the death of Japanese photo-journalist Kenji Nagai, who was killed by security forces during the brutal crackdown on protestors in September of last year. "I saw a team of Japanese police in uniform near Sule Pagoda," an eyewitness told Mizzima. The eyewitness said the Japanese police were traveling in a truck at about 10 a.m. (local time). A TV reporter for the Japanese News Agency APF, Kenji Nagai, 50, was covering a public protest in Rangoon and was among the many shot to death by authorities who used automatic rifles to crackdown on demonstrators. The United Nations estimates at least 31 people lost their lives in the protests. The four-member Japanese police team is scheduled to meet with officials of the Burmese Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday to discuss the progress of investigations by Burmese authorities, according to an Associated Press report. An official at the Japanese embassy in Rangoon told Mizzima that the visiting police delegates, along with other embassy officials, are currently in a meeting, declining to comment further on the delegation's visit. While video footage of a Burmese soldier shooting Nagai at point-blank range was televised around the world, the Burmese authorities said Nagai's death was accidental and he was not deliberately targeted. Commentaries and opinions run in the state-owned press imply that Nagai, who entered Burma under the false pretense of being a tourist, was responsible for his own fate. (End) -- Nem Davies Desk Reporter&Media Alert Coordinator Mizzima News Agency Address: F-244, Vikaspuri New Delhi-110018 Mobile +91-9871460417 |
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