Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1994
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1994
AWARD RECIPIENT: Raymond Bonner
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Reports from Rwanda”
“‘They were just like bureaucrats,’ said one teacher describing the bands of marauders who killed hundreds of thousands in Rwanda. “They started every morning at 7 and quit at 5.'” That was one of the more chilling quotes from Bonner’s powerful portrait of the slaughter in Rwanda. At the core of his reporting were vivid dispatches from the Zairian refugee camps where more than a million Hutus fled after the victory a Tutsi-led army. No reporter did a better job of evoking the horror and pathos of that country’s destruction.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Associated Press Staff (Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin Bureaus)
The Baltic Sea Disaster
Keith B. Richburg
The Washington Post
Dispatches from Africa