Gordana Knezević

Gordana Knezević (born July 1950 in Belgrade) is the former editor of Oslobođenje, and covered the siege of Sarajevo from 1992-1994. She has been based in Toronto, Canada as the online desk editor at Reuters since 1996.[1] She served two terms at the Board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.[2]

Excerpt from her article in The Toronto Star on 11 April 1999:

"I was a Serb besieged by Serbs. And I identified with each person in Sarajevo exposed to Serb shelling. I witnessed the pain of Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Jews and Serbs who were forced from their homes. I could not possibly identify with the people who had started all the shooting, or lend the perpetrators of that action moral support through silence."

Awards and recognitions

References

  1. ↑ http://www.soros.org/resources/events/knezevic_20050330/event_biography_folder_view
  2. ↑ http://www.thismagazine.ca/contributors/
  3. ↑ IWMF website http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=595&c=cijwinner
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