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John Pomfret —
American
Journalist
John Pomfret was an English poet and clergyman... (wikipedia)
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 saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
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 if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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 me.
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
