Atsuhito Nakata Explained

Atsuhito Nakata
Native Name:中田 厚仁
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Date:10 January 1968
Birth Place:Osaka, Japan
Death Place:Prasat Sambour District, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia
Death Cause:Gunshot wound
Education:Osaka University
Occupation:UN volunteer

was a Japanese UN Volunteer working as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations who was gunned down in Kampong Thom, Cambodia along with his friend and interpreter Lek Sopheip.[1]

As a United Nations Volunteer, Nakata traveled to Cambodia to help organize the first national elections at the community level in Cambodia after the reign of the Khmer Rouge.[2] Nakata was one of 465 UNV District Election Volunteer Election Supervisors deployed with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: United Nations Volunteers: In memory of Atsuhito Nakata . 2014-07-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714205621/http://www.unv.org/en/news-resources/news/doc/in-memory-of-atsuhito-1.html . 2014-07-14 .
  2. https://www.unv.org/media/japan-commemorates-its-untac-dead
  3. Web site: 20 years after: In memory of Atsuhito Nakata, UN Volunteer killed while on duty | UN Volunteers Cambodia . 2014-07-10 . 2014-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140715023204/http://www.un.org.kh/unv/atsutiho_nakata . dead .