BBC News - Today - Bosnia: Twenty Years On: I asked the man how old he was. He said he was 80. May I ask you, I said, are you a Muslim or a Croat? And the answer he gave me still shames me as it echoes down the decades in my head. I am, he said, a musician.
It was a rebuke to the convenient ethnic shorthand to which we reporters reduced the lives of fully rounded, blameless, and accomplished human beings.