About John Pomfret: John Pomfret was an English poet and clergyman.
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
