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_______________ ‘A gifted and brave reporter, who has personally hunted down those she believed responsible for the massacres' - The Times 'A gripping human journey ... superbly researched and written' - Roy Gutman, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter 'A compelling documentary in words ... Her book will convince you that we're doomed if we don't seek justice' - New York Times _______________ An award-winning reporter's impassioned view of the atrocities in Rwanda and Bosnia and their implications for humanity everywhere. From her unique vantage point as a reporter directly covering the reality and aftermath of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning journalist Elizabeth Neuffer tells the compelling story of two parallel journeys toward justice in each country - that of the international war crime tribunals, and that of the people left behind. In a book packed with devastating stories, including those of victims and perpetrators, forensic experts and tribunal judges, two provide the double backbone of the book's narrative: Hasan Nuhanovic, a Bosnian muslim whose determination to discover the fate of his family lost at Srebrenica sees him mature over the years from a gangling youth to a man with the authority to testify before Congress; and Witness JJ, a Tutsi woman of staggering courage who overcomes her modesty and the dictates of her culture to testify about the rapes that are classified as war crimes.

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'A gifted and brave reporter, who has personally hunted down those she believed responsible for the massacres' The Times 'A gripping human journey ... superbly researched and written' Roy Gutman, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter 'A compelling documentary in words ... Her book will convince you that we're doomed if we don't seek justice' New York Times

In this compelling book, Boston Globe journalist Elizabeth Neuffer gives a vivid and horrific account of the massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda and their results. Even her previous experience had not prepared Neuffer for what she was to find. Although she did not see the slaughter at first hand, she was confronted with the aftermath. Mass graves, rotten corpses and piles of bleached bones bore silent witness to 'ethnic cleansing', a phrase in which political correctness clothes indescribable horror. Those who escaped this mass slaughter remain traumatized to this day; attempts to return to normality are haunted by a justified fear of further retribution. In Bosnia, the Serbs under Milosevic sought to establish a Greater Serbia by eradicating everyone else. In Rwanda, the Hutus tried the same with the Tutsis. Some survived; there were revenge killings which are only mentioned in passing. The UN stepped in too late; their soldiers, too few, too ill-equipped and under orders not to intervene militarily, were impotent. The Dutch, for instance, watched and even helped while men were separated from women; the men were taken away to be shot, the women to camps where they were beaten and raped. Neuffer describes the ineffectual attempts to establish a form of international justice, the ghastly opening of graves and attempts to identify the mangled intermixed corpses, and indeed the search to find the mass graves to which the Serbs had transferred many of them in an attempt to hide the evidence. The perpetrators walk free and unrepentant, threatening and even assassinating potential witnesses, still harbouring hatred. Those who survived can hardly be called fortunate as they seek to rebuild their lives, and seek restitution and revenge - or justice if you prefer the word. All this is reported in heartrending detail, together with efforts made to establish incriminating evidence with wholly inadequate support. The author wrote this for her home market, hoping to raise the awareness of her fellow Americans about what was going on. It is right that we should share in this. (Kirkus UK)

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Elizabeth Neuffer won the Courage in Journalism award and was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a reporter for the Boston Globe. She died in Iraq in May 2003.

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