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Headlines : InternationalA Shot Heard Round the World
This analysis optimistically predicts a tide shift against the Burmese junta sparked by the cold-blooded assassination of a Japanese photojournalist that was serendipitously caught on film.
The meat of the argument goes like this:
[Posted By Beagle17]With the 2008 Olympics fast approaching, China is under intense pressure to abandon its longstanding policy of nonintervention. This often-invoked mantra is undermining China’s global stature and increasingly looks like an evasion of its growing responsibilities. China has already reversed course on Sudan, which it recently pressured to allow a U.N. peacekeeping force. Burma may be next.
Republished from Newsweek (Web exclusive)
Kenji Nagai, 50, a freelance photojournalist based in Japan, was killed in Rangoon, Burma, last week while covering a peaceful protest there. A popular and respected professional whose work led him to hotspots around the world, Nagai was fired on at point-blank range by a Burmese soldier. The impact of the bullet knocked Nagai backward onto the street, but videos later broadcast on Japanese TV showed him trying to raise his camera for another picture before collapsing. This was no random shot, and it has already reverberated around the world. The repercussions for Burma’s ruling junta will be severe, for now, in addition to killing dozens of peaceful demonstrators, they have murdered a journalist from a country that’s lobbied against sanctions on Burma in the past. This blunder may prove the generals’ undoing.
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We can only hope that it will mean their undoing. We’ll see what happens.
Jesus… that’s a man devoted to his cause and craft…