Journalist killed in crackdown blamed for 'inviting danger'

Burma’s state-controlled media said today that a Japanese journalist, killed during a crackdown on recent pro-democracy protests, was to blame for his own death because he put himself in harm’s way.

Kenji Nagai, 50, a video journalist for Japan’s APF News agency, was among at least 10 people killed in the September 26-27 crackdown, when soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of pro-democracy demonstrators.