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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles. Kate Adie | top
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. Christiane Amanpour | top
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. Paddy Ashdown | top
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. Paddy Ashdown | top
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. Paddy Ashdown | top
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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. Joe Bob Briggs | top
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. Warren Christopher | top
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Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. Jill Dando | top
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I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff | top
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. Michael Ignatieff | top
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement. Alija Izetbegovic | top
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic | top
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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. Alija Izetbegovic | top
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We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia. Alija Izetbegovic | top
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. John Keegan | top
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Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. Peter King | top
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He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too. Stjepan Mesic | top
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We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided. Alex Morrison | top
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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 changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. John Pomfret | top
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. John Pomfret | top
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I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. John Pomfret | top
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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 a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. John Pomfret | top
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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. John Pomfret | top
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When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical. Joe Sacco | top
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Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. Allyson Schwartz | top