‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia

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  We know what is happening.

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  We cannot walk away.

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  How the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia by Ian Mays.

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  Read by Owen Macdonald.

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  Among many courageous correspondents covering the war in the former Yugoslavia,

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  the reporting of Ed Vouliami and Maggie O'Kane received plaudits and numerous awards.

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  Both were inexorably drawn to where the action was and wrote unblinking, vivid accounts.

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  But what made their work controversial was their refusal to be neutral.

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  For many journalists, including some of their colleagues at The Guardian,

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  it was vital to maintain the distinction between being a witness,

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