Anyone of news-viewing age in the early 90s will find it difficult to recall the Bosnian War without remembering Maggie O’Kane. This Northern Irish war-correspondent was part of the landscape of the time, whether writing a regular column on the war in the Guardian or making television documentaries about the same. Young, elfin, urgent and…
| January 4, 2016
Barely four years after the official end of the war in Bosnia, the BBC aired the two-part drama Warriors (1999), a fictionalised account of a British battalion sent to Bosnia from ’92-’93 (the height of the war there) under the auspices of UNPROFOR, the UN peacekeeping force. Written by Leigh Jackson and directed by Peter…
| December 23, 2015
White-suited and clean-shaven even in war zones, foreign affairs correspondent Martin Bell OBE was a familiar figure reporting for the BBC on the Balkan Wars of the 1990s: the 11th such conflict he had covered for the channel. On our televisions his voiceovers to atrocities such as the ethnic cleansing of Zvornik and the siege…
| December 22, 2015
‘Had it not been for the arrest, the book would never have been written… I would have just closed the door on the whole experience and moved on.’ Milos Stankovic is speaking about Trusted Mole: A Soldier’s Journey into Bosnia’s Heart of Darkness – his account of his spell as the longest serving British Soldier…
| December 17, 2015