Showing posts with label National Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Post. Show all posts

Friday, September 28, 2007

Image of an uprising (redux)


Here's an interesting situation. Above is the image that was run on the front page of the National Post. It depicts a protest scene in Burma/Myanmar. The Globe and Mail ran the same photo, but from a wider angle. Here is what the Post left out:


I haven't found a decent-sized version of the full image, but the man lying on his back (Kenji Nagai) appears to the right of the crowd being herded by security forces.

Mr. Nagai is a Japanese national who had just been shot by a soldier. He died as a result of his wounds. My guess is that this is the reason for his omission from the Page 1 image, but I'm throwing it out there to the masses for comment.

Edit: I found the photo.


Also: Links to two videos that show the incident (disturbing, but not gory). The first is courtesy of Times Online and is a Japanese news broadcast. The second comes through The Guardian and shows the incident from a different angle.