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Extreme train boarding in Myanmar

To the loving people of Burma, we support you in this crisis

Eklek says...

*asia
I just updated my Al Jazeera post and added all Al Jazeera reports on Myanmar/Nargis:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cyclone-batters-Myanmars-main-city-Yangon-4th-of-May-2008

BTW I generally have mixed happy/sad feelings about flowers that are cut off from their roots, especially when falling from the sky..

edit:
I just found out Nargis means Daffodil, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Nargis
"The cyclone name "Nargis" (نرگس, IPA: næɵr-ɡɵs), is an Urdu word meaning daffodil"
Was this known by the ones who made this clip?

Horror in Myanmar--Warning, Video of Shooting of Journalist

sbchapm says...

rough translation from Reddit:

Voice over: The tragedy took place in central Yangon. Civilians retreating from the security forces. As the camera panned to the left, Mr. Nagai gets shot.

Man: This is the Tokyo Shinbun from this morning. It has a photo from Reuters. Judging from his appearance and situation, the man lying there is Mr. Nagai. The caption says, man trying to capture photo as he falls. This appears to have been Mr. Nagai.

We'll take a look at the footage again, but despite earlier reports that he had been caught by a wandering bullet, there doesn't seem to be any way that this is the case.

Woman: It appears that he was shot point blank.

Voice over: <same thing as opening>.

Mr. Nagai falls there and, seemingly to appeal for help, waves his spasming arms. In that hand was a camera. Wearing short sleeves and short pants. We cannot discern from this footage whether he was wearing an armband or helmet to show that he was a member of the press.

The man who shot him was a soldier in uniform. The footage shows that he stopped running and shot Mr. Nagai at point blank range. Then, after shooting him, goes on to fire at others around him.

2 minutes later the camera caught Mr. Nagai again. Still on the ground, he doesn't move. Autopsy showed that the bullet penetrated his heart.

Mr. Nagai was with news production APF Communications. This clip shows him on a Fuji TV show 6 years ago.

Mr. Nagai: We seem to get many Taliban communications on the radio.

@ Studio: The most striking thing was the juvenile (underaged) soldiers.

Voice over: The veteran journalist who has covered war zones in Afghanistan and Palestine has lost his life.

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