A Witness to Genocide

s/ The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dispatches on the Ethnic Cleansing of BosniaStraight from today's front-page headlines comes this shocking 1sthand account of the genocide perpetrated by Bosnia's Serbs against that country's Muslims. A Witness to Genocide is a compilation of Newsday foreign correspondent Gutman's reports from Bosnia, which won the '93 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Gutman & photographer Kaiser (whose photos illustrate this book) were the 1st Western journalists to visit the death camps. Gutman was the 1st to interview the survivors & report on the atrocities taking place. His articles were partly responsible for the UN's condemnation of the camps & insistence that the Internat'l Red Cross inspect them. The articles include survivors' accounts of being transported to the camps in cattle cars in which many died of starvation or suffocation, the systematic murder of prisoners, the government-ordered rape of all Muslim girls & women, & the destruction of the 600-year-old Muslim cultural heritage, including over half of all mosques, historical sites & libraries. Not since the Holocaust have such widespread, blatant & unrestrained atrocities been committed against a defenseless minority. The articles are framed by a prologue in which the recent history & breakup of Yugoslavia are explained, & an epilogue in which Gutman suggests how to stop this tragedy & prevent others.

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