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I came face to face with Ratko Mladić in 1993 and today am reflecting on that time. We were brought up in the era of never again, and again was happening in Europe and the West. Democracies were doing nothing to stop what was happening in Bosnia. His death reminds me not just of the disaster that befell the West and Europe throughout the 90s, but reminds us also, this is happening again. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Europe. And it reminds me that we, the journalists, did our jobs. We kept this horror in everybody's sight in technicolor live television at the end of the 20th century, so that nobody could say we didn't know. I am proud of all the journalists who covered these crimes in real time and didn't let the West turn away, and built the ledger of evidence and accountability.