US reporter wins Pulitzer

BOSTON - Christian Science Monitor reporter David Rohde, who was captured and held by Bosnian Serbs after uncovering suspected…

BOSTON - Christian Science Monitor reporter David Rohde, who was captured and held by Bosnian Serbs after uncovering suspected mass graves, won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting yesterday.

Rohde was the first Western journalist to visit and collect evidence from the graves, where human rights officials believe more than 3,000 Moslems were massacred following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.

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