Pulitzer award, Adrees Latif

The loss of a life at any cost is something that none us ever want to witness, however in this case documenting Kenji Nagais’ murder did for a while put Burma back on the political map. With out sounding disrespectful to Kenji Nagai and his family, it’s a sad state of affairs when a photograph like this wins the most respected award in journalism and rightly so, but wheres the political pressure now. Was Kenji Nagais’ death, was it pointless? Adrees well done, thanks for being on that bridge, when everyone else was running for cover – but more importantly thanks for getting this photograph of the murderess act out of Burma, so the rest of the world was able to see what was happening in Yangoon at the time. Patrick

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by Patrick Brown at Thu Apr 10 02:58:56 UTC 2008 (ed. Apr 11 2008) Bangkok, Thailand | Bookmark this | Digg this |