Comments on: Video of journalist murder in Burma

By: Free Burma!

Free Burma! — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:24:38 +0000

Free Burma!
International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October

International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.

http://www.free-burma.org

By: Left Flank » Burma: Thinking about Sisyphus

Left Flank » Burma: Thinking about Sisyphus — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:49:37 +0000

[...] Tokyo’s concern for journalist Nagai Kenji is an example. Any reaction short of parking a destroyer in the Indian Ocean is just perfunctory, and no other player would join Japan. So, instead of an honest reaction, Tokyo will lodge complaints. Netizens will raise awareness of Myanmar’s plight with their invective, to a certain extent. There’s not enough journalist or oil deposits in the world the Burmese junta could kill or spike, to alienate every country in the world with sufficient sadism and ineptitude for the world to park its armed forces around the Burmese borders. [...]

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:13:05 +0000

Joanna, have you tried contacting Google about that? Maybe they would agree with you, and temporarily suspend ads promoting tourism in Burma. For what it’s worth, the vast majority of Google ads on searches for Burma or Myanmar are currently related to either the democracy movement or news coverage of current events.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:11:33 +0000

Actually, Burma has moderately substantial reserves of natural gas, and moderate reserves of oil as well. One statistic I found said that Burma might be as high as the 27th largest proven crude oil reserves, although the numbers are a bit wonky and unreliable seeming. In fact, Chinese and Indian support for the Burmese regime is primarily based on the country’s energy reserves, and Chinese support for Burma, symbolically manifested in their UN veto (with a possible second veto by Russia) is one of the things stopping any outside countries from getting very involved.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:54:12 +0000

I bet if Burma had oil, the US Marines would be invading right now. So much for spreading “democracy”. Shame on the world for allowing this to happen.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:10:00 +0000

I can’t believe Google is letting automatic ads for travel and tourism to Burma continue to appear on this website. They ought to be ashamed.

By: At Last! Burma Rises » TravelBlog Archive » The Laughing Nomad

At Last! Burma Rises » TravelBlog Archive » The Laughing Nomad — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:50:55 +0000

[...] Nagai was an independent photojournalist which illustrates the predicament many photojournalists find themselves in when big media sources September 28, [...]

By: Aceface

Aceface — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:28:42 +0000

Ｎow that Nagai had become a matyr of free press.But I must have to say he is also a victim of trhe conwardly of Japanese big media.
APF is a company selling materials to major TV broadcasters who fear to tread in the combat zone.So that will push free contractor like Nagai more into the danger zone.

Nagai,first timer in Myanmar was elsewhere.Gaza,Baghdad,Bosnia.Back in the days of Vietnam war,lots of J-reporters from big medias were in combat zones and many of them had lost their lives.Even Komori Yoshihisa,condenmned unjustifably by Steven Clemmons on WaPO as heartening a rightwinger to set fire on Kato Kouichi’s home, was in Saigon and stayed all along during the fall.

But today neither NHK nor other broadcasters want send their own people.None of their own reporters were in Kabul at the time the city fell in the hand of the Northern Alliance in November 2001.Same goes to those who operate outside of the greenzone in Baghdad now.

Low payment and unstable job status would likely make these free lancers risk the danger of being at the scene when in abroad and financlial difficulty when at home.No life insuarance,because the company won’t take the contract.
Mr.Nagai who was 50 years old at the time of his death,remained a single man.

By: Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Burma: Will Japan show its teeth next week?

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:08:21 +0000

[...] the debate in Japan has been transformed this week as a result of the apparently intentional point-blank shooting of Kenji Nagai, a photographer for a Japanese production [...]

By: Julián Ortega Martínez

Julián Ortega Martínez — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:49:08 +0000

There's another, even more shocking video here.