Of all the war criminals and mass murderers I have encountered in 40 years of reporting in conflict zones, Ratko Mladic was the most chilling. The United Nations ex-Yugoslavia Tribunal’s final verdict — life imprisonment for genocide — brings back memories that even a hard-bitten war reporter finds hard to erase. ** Dead children’s graves […]
United Nations judges have sentenced Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. As this is in a final judgment, there can be no further appeal. Mladic, now 78, sat without a mask in the war crime tribunal’s dock behind a sheet of glass. He […]
Here’s a story about how I found and ‘bought’ a Weapon of Minor Destruction — a missile — in the heart of Baghdad. Going fast in Iraq: the £300 rocket grenade launchers that can bring down a helicopter Paul Martin, Baghdad… which Alameen bought the RPG underlines the problems American forces face in restoring order […]
A sign on the desert road south of Baghdad, curiously in English not Arabic, pointed to what it described as an “Engineering Factory”. It was the only hint that there was something unusual to be found just off the beaten track. Until days before, this “Engineering factory” had been nothing less than Saddam Hussein’s project […]
Film-maker and broadcaster Paul Martin addressed a UNESCO meeting to discuss media freedom and reporter safety issues in the wake of his 26-day detention by Hamas while he was filming an ongoing story in the Gaza Strip this year. UNESCO MEETING APPLAUDS NEW MOHAMED FILM AND CONSIDERS MARTIN’S DETENTION AS INFRINGEMENT OF MEDIA FREEDOM. PARIS– […]
The unmeasurable price of war. The title the BBC gave Paul Martin’s article, which was the script of a broadcast he made in one of his FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT feature pieces from the region of the Middle East and Africa. It’s still relevant in the wake of another conflict in which civilians paid a […]
Violence continues to erupt along Gaza’s volatile border with Israel. here’s how we reported, for and with the Mirror newspaper, three years ago precisely. The Mirror’s Chief reporter is on the Gaza-Israel border where the kites are terrifying residents COMMENTS By Andy Lines [with Paul Martin] 22:21, 11 MAY 2018 Floating in the clear blue […]
By Paul Martin. Last Thursday (April 8 2021) Andy Green, 54, scored a massive court victory against Betfred, which now has to pay him 1.7 million pounds plus solicitors’ costs. The betting company had refused to pay him his winnings, claiming there had been a ‘glitch’. But Andy Green, 54, says the three years […]
MOHAMMAD ALI AND NELSON MANDELA: THEIR PASSION FOR BOXING AND HUMANITY.