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    Letters

    Dec 23, 2020 2 minutes

    REPORTING THE BOSNIAN WAR Several claims in Janine di Giovanni’s article Lessons of Bosnian war and peace (December) reflect poorly on me professionally and need correcting.

    I was the reporter working in Bosnia before her arrival there, and my peers will have little difficulty identifying me as the “unhappy” middle-aged male reporter she claims to have “displaced”. As

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