Best international reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights
AWARD YEAR: 1999
AWARD NAME: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 1999
RECIPIENT: Charles Madigan, Colin McMahon
AFFILIATION: The Chicago Tribune
HONORED WORK: “Autopsy of a War Crime”
This exceptional three-part series by Madigan and McMahon explores the long-term outlook for justice in Kosovo’s killing fields. It provides a moving and detailed account of the horror of one small town, Bela Crkva, where Serb police massacred 64 ethnic Albanian Kosovars. The in-depth reporting and eloquent writing provides an important contribution to public understanding of the human-rights dilemma that faces the Balkans.
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