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Kurt Schork
Kurt Schork (January 24, 1947 – May 24, 2000) was an American and Bosnian war correspondent, working for Reuters.
He was born on January 24, 1947 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Jamestown College in 1969, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar later that year—the same time as future United States President Bill Clinton. Schork worked as a property developer, a political adviser, and then chief of staff for the New York City Transit Authority before becoming a journalist.
He headed for the Middle East. He decided to concentrate on Kurdistan. Because of the large numbers of similarly-minded reporters, Kurt had more success selling photos rather than stories. His break came in October 1991. He was on the spot when Kurdish guerrillas counter-attacked Iraqi forces shelling the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.
When in Bosnia started war, Reuters sent him to Sarajevo where the power of his reporting of the siege of that city had widespread impact, mobilising public opinion and prompting NATO to intervene. Kurt arrived in Bosnia in the summer of 1992 and stayed until 1997. He left Sarajevo in 1997 when he moved to Washington D.C. He also covered numerous conflicts and wars, including Iraq, Chechnya, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.
Kurt Schork was killed in an ambush while on an assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis, were also injured in the attack.
The original dispatch by Kurt Schork telling the moving story of Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo.
He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a young couple, Boško Brkić and Admira Ismić, an Eastern Orthodox Bosnian Serb and Muslim Bosniak girl killed during the Siege of Sarajevo. Admira's and Boško's relationship defied the ethnic hatred which followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. After being shot and killed by snipers while attempting to flee the area, their bodies remained unreachable on a bridge in no man's land for eight days as the war raged on. They became known as Romeo and Juliet as the story of their unshakable love emerged. Before they made the decision to flee, the young couple were serving as surrogate parents to the young sons of Admira's cousin, Brana, who was killed in Sarajevo by a 60-millimeter shell while putting her sons to sleep. Boško's decision to flee with Admira was influenced by the fact that his grandfather was summoned in Croatia to a police station by pro-Hitler Fascists during World War II and never seen again.
After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje Lav" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.
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Kurt Schork
Kurt Schork (January 24, 1947 – May 24, 2000) was an American and Bosnian war correspondent, working for Reuters.
He was born on January 24, 1947 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Jamestown College in 1969, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar later that year—the same time as future United States President Bill Clinton. Schork worked as a property developer, a political adviser, and then chief of staff for the New York City Transit Authority before becoming a journalist.
He headed for the Middle East. He decided to concentrate on Kurdistan. Because of the large numbers of similarly-minded reporters, Kurt had more success selling photos rather than stories. His break came in October 1991. He was on the spot when Kurdish guerrillas counter-attacked Iraqi forces shelling the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.
When in Bosnia started war, Reuters sent him to Sarajevo where the power of his reporting of the siege of that city had widespread impact, mobilising public opinion and prompting NATO to intervene. Kurt arrived in Bosnia in the summer of 1992 and stayed until 1997. He left Sarajevo in 1997 when he moved to Washington D.C. He also covered numerous conflicts and wars, including Iraq, Chechnya, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.
Kurt Schork was killed in an ambush while on an assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis, were also injured in the attack.
The original dispatch by Kurt Schork telling the moving story of Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo.
He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a young couple, Boško Brkić and Admira Ismić, an Eastern Orthodox Bosnian Serb and Muslim Bosniak girl killed during the Siege of Sarajevo. Admira's and Boško's relationship defied the ethnic hatred which followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. After being shot and killed by snipers while attempting to flee the area, their bodies remained unreachable on a bridge in no man's land for eight days as the war raged on. They became known as Romeo and Juliet as the story of their unshakable love emerged. Before they made the decision to flee, the young couple were serving as surrogate parents to the young sons of Admira's cousin, Brana, who was killed in Sarajevo by a 60-millimeter shell while putting her sons to sleep. Boško's decision to flee with Admira was influenced by the fact that his grandfather was summoned in Croatia to a police station by pro-Hitler Fascists during World War II and never seen again.
After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje Lav" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.