Michael Senior
Year: 1997
Nationality: Cambodia
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Press organization: Freelancer
What's Michael Senior's story?
Senior, a television newscaster and English teacher, was assassinated while photographing looting by soldiers in a public market in the aftermath of a coup begun two days earlier by then-second prime minister Hun Sen. He was accosted by the soldiers, Hun Sen loyalists, who shot him first in the knee. As he lay in the street pleading for mercy, he was shot again, executed in front of his Cambodian wife and brother-in-law.
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