Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
Award Year: 1995
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 1995
Recipient: David Rohde
Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Honored Work: “Exposing the Srebrenica Massacre”
With great persistence, and at considerable personal risk, Rohde visited Serb-held Bosnia and obtained hard physical evidence of mass executions. His graphic yet carefully measured reports offered the first confirmation of the terrible fate of thousands of Bosnian Muslims after the fall of Srebrenica. Their killing represented the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust. The author was able to find nine credible survivors of the executions and persuade them to reveal, for the first time, the scope of the massacres and the role of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic.
Citation for Excellence:
Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times
“Reporting on Japan”