In June 1991 while working as a reporter in Rome, Ed Vulliamy received a phone call from his editor at the Guardian asking him to the travel to the neighbouring Balkan states to check out something strange that was happening in the region. Vulliamy spent the next few years immersed in the Bosnian War, the worst carnage to blight European soil since the Third Reich. In August 1992, Vulliamy revealed to the world the horrific concentration camps that were in operation in Omarska and Trnopolje in Bosnia.
Vulliamy’s latest book The War is Dead, Long Live The War is a tribute to some of the survivors, who are now scattered across various cities around the world in exile. As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the war’s outbreak, Vulliamy argues that there has been no reckoning or redemption in the region, where hatred still thrives.
He spoke to The Spectator about why he decided to testify against the accused war criminal, Radovan Karadzic, in The Hague, why the British government appeased Serbian generals, who were later tried for genocide, and how the violence he has witnessed as a war reporter has changed his view on humanity.
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