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Slain journo's camera resurfaces 16 years after death in Myanmar

Noriko Ogawa, sister of the late Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai, who was shot dead in Yangon while covering the “Saffron Revolution” in 2007, receives his camera from Aye Chan Naing, editor of the Democratic Voice of Burma, at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in Bangkok on Wednesday. (Photo: 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, 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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