"I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs……" — John Pomfret

"I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions."

— John Pomfret

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27 Quotes by John Pomfret

John Pomfret has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the…
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…

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More Bosnian Quotes

This quote is filed under Bosnian Quotes, one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks… — Emir Kusturica
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. — Paddy Ashdown
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge… — Michael Ignatieff
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon
I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else. — Adnan
Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether… — Josip Broz Tito
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and… — Janine di Giovanni
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a… — John Pomfret
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army,… — John Pomfret

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