Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Remember the victims, also shooter

Yangon October 3
Young local journalist Ko Ko aung wants to tell his readers how soldier shoot to the Japanese reporter at suelay junction. He is also one of the eyewitnesses among thousands of people where it took place.
As a Myanmar journalist, he knows there is no way to release that sort of story in his country, which is under the government censorship board. He could not write and pass that story legally, nevertheless, he clearly remembered that scenes at September 27, the very loud gun shoots, huge smoke fire and fallen down the Japanese reporter orderly on and on.
“Now things are something like recover in Yangon, we can see the shooter soldiers everywhere in the streets. It seems to be controlled the situation but I want to say please remembers the victims in September Yangon misery.” said ko ko aung .
He asks vendors from the downtown to stay away from these soldiers, do not forget September victims and thousands of the monks who have arrested at the prison very recently.
Myanmar, famous Buddhist country, Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like ko ko aung could not cover the news, as he wanted.
Here is just one of the 10 promising lives cut short at yangon’s melancholy in September last week, including the Japanese reporter that confirmed by authorities .Government said from their state own newspaper they shoot only the terrorist marchers not to the innocent public.
However, the reality is the Japanese reporter and nine peaceful protestors died on the spot in Yangon.
“There is no doubt on Japanese reporter, obviously he is not terrorist like our government said’ remarked the eyewitness.
When you think of the massacre that befell this crowded downtown. When you pass this business street those are memories of the ko ko aung wants his readers to remember this irony.
The city centre was closed in these days every early afternoon .The big square in font of the city hall was empty, except for several fire engines and military trucks. Army soldiers kept watch passers-by. They also smashed the camera and cell phones and beat people who were carrying them.
“We, local journalists, want the world to know that misery in Myanmar, How they shoot and how it is unfair to the monks,”he added.
Several news networks all over the world already put front-page headline about the peaceful Buddhist protest monks and government crash down by soldiers in that time of being. Around the same time and in this place sulay junction, on September 26, these solider killed 3 protestors on the spot.
At the Anawyahtar and Sulay corner, that it could be gunfire struck on the peaceful protest group while they were blessing.
It was nearly 1 pm of September 27 afternoon, Mr kenji Nagai ,52oyears old journalist was in the blessing group before half and hour of that shoot ,protest group was sitting peacefully on the street. Mr. Naggai did not know that it was the last sitting for his life on the street.
It was his first visit to Myanmar; he entered the country with tourist visa according to the Myanmar’s state run television. He was experienced in covering war –stricken area such as Israel ,Iraq and Jordan asahishimbun reported.
The photographer, who was visiting Bangkok for a different assigement, had entered the country on Tuesday, volunteering to cover the country pro-democracy movement. According record ,Mr nagai is the first foreign victim of the crack down on the anti government protests.

He was on the bridge that built across the sulay pagoda street September 26, the day before he shoot said witness; it situated 100 meter behind the place that he had been shooting.
There Buddhist monks were sitting in front of the sitting protest group, beside them candlelight glinted poorly under the sun. In addition, a girl was wearing Muslim traditional dress inside this group.
At 13:18 pm there, military light trucks with fully equipments drove towards the protests group against other side. Immediately, something clicked. It was not everybody think. Then two minutes latter the shot boomed over the ko ko aung’s head.
.At that time ko ko aung was under the bridge only 50 meters away from Mr Nagai lay dead. After nearly six another gunshots, and shooter soldiers were gone a few minutes latter.
ko ko aung talked to the girl lying nearby ,trying to figure out who was hurt and how badly.
She was brave enough that he has ever met .The shot hit foreigner reporter and then another shot from a few feet away from solider and the he was gone.
“We just know one of the victim is foreigner we did not know he is either Japan or American”
Before Mr. Nagai fallen down and dropped his camera on the street ,the place he laid down is quite close corner billboard in front of the Public communication office (PCO)the time is 1;20 exactly.
“There were two laid on the street”, she pointed toward the Japanese reporter and ko ko aung believed these two lay on dead.
Suddenly other solider and special police who were holding guns, shields sand sticks burst the protestors group.. He thought, security forces also moved quickly to disperse of 200 to 300 in other areas, sealing off the Anawyahtar road.
While these solider were following to these groups ko ko aung took picture with his old digital camera. Unfortunately, he could not take good picture; which is only the one that he will never forget in his life.
Then he crawled back toward the public rest room near by and run through over into the traders hotel fence.
He was gazing a few minutes behind the fence; he realized that four men wearing ordinary clothes carried Mr Nagai body to the traffic control room.
At 1;40 pm two army trucks arrived and announced split up to the protestors .It was silent and no one not dare to go out from their hiding place.

.Around 4 pm, ko ko aung made ph call to his parent said his mom about his safe and was doing fine but he could not talk about his grief over past a few hours ago.
It is too painful, too personal; he could not believe his eye when he sees the photos about Mr. Nagai from the blogs.
On October 3, Mr. Nagai went back his country without survive. All he took is only video records from protest group in September 27 but he scarified his life for that.
“When we do for the readers but we never won’t be afraid for our life, we, local Myanmar journalists delighted and honored on Mr. Nagai’ ko ko aung said.

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