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Monitor series wins award for best international reporting

From the July 2001 issue of The Christian Science Journal


In new york in April, Christian Science Monitor correspondent Cameron Barr received the prestigious Overseas Press Club award for the "best international reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights" for his series on an Indonesian battalion in East Timor (March 13, 14, 16, 17, 2000). The judges described it as "an outstanding investigative series" in which Barr "painstakingly exposes the devastating impact of the carnage" left behind by members of the Army unit.