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]