"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."
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Paddy Ashdown, as quoted in "Farewell, Sarajevo" (1 November 2005), The Guardian
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