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Paddy Ashdown: ‘It’s shame and impotence that haunts me’

Jul 04, 2012, 01:34 PM

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Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Lord Ashdown recounts the horror of visiting the Trnopolje concentration camp in Bosnia in 1992, and his enduring sense of futility at what he was able to do. Earlier he recalls an intervention at the Manjaca camp in which he was able to affect a positive change which he describes as his ‘proudest day’s work’.

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