“Ethnic conflict has devastated the former Yugoslavia and parts of the former Soviet Union, and been the fuel of disputes in parts of Eastern Europe. It has also deeply affected much of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia… Our knowledge or awareness of these conflicts depends entirely on whether the media takes an interest in them, or are allowed to take an interest in them. The break-up of the former Yugoslavia was widely covered, and the searing pictures of the resulting wars are emblazoned on our memories. The conflict in Chechnya, by contrast, is less-well documented, as the media have been kept away by the Russians “for security reasons.”“
Bob Rae
Exporting Democracy, p. 99-100
