Goran Tomasevic – who was among the first journalists to document the grisly scene after mass killings at Kosovo’s Dubrava prison in 1999 – told BIRN that covering the war took a deep emotional toll.
As long as I can walk and hold my camera, I will go for it,” declared Serbian photographer Goran Tomasevic, who covered the aftermath of the killings at Kosovo’s largest prison in 1999 and the exodus of Kosovo Albanians on trains to Macedonia during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
In an interview at BIRN’s Reporting House in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, Tomasevic – who has also covered wars and conflicts in the Middle East and Africa and is a recipient of several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize – said the events in Kosovo had affected him most because “[Serbian] people were a big part of what was happening”.
“The situation for us photographers was totally unfriendly. The police were like, ‘You are working for Reuters [news agency]’, the population didn’t like me, Albanians didn’t like me because I’m Serb, and the Kosovo Liberation Army didn’t like me either,” he recalled.
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