Without Mercy ; As Junta's Backlash Against Protesters Intensifies and Savagery Rules the Streets of Burma, a Photographer Is Gunned Down

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ONE moment the photographer is lying prone on his back, his arms raised in what may be a gesture of surrender - or pleading.

Seconds later, the soldier who had been standing over him with a sub machine-gun has moved on, and the photographer is lying motionless.

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Without Mercy ; As Junta's Backlash Against Protesters Intensifies and Savagery Rules the Streets of Burma, a Photographer Is Gunned Down

The 50-year-old Japanese journalist was killed as troops and police in Burma intensified their crackdown on protesters who...