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When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because... →
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is... →
But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they... →
One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us... →
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that... →
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on... →
And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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