Pengasihan Gaut: Mediating the Conflict in Bosnia
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
HOW long have you been working?
21 years.
Rank?
Same as yours. Listen, Ill surely pass [the test]. Can you guarantee that Ill be sent to Bosnia?
It was a conversation between Lt. Col. Pengasihan Gaut and a United Nations official one day in 1999. Gaut, 51, was undergoing an English test to join the Garuda contingent to Bosnia. She challenged the Irish examiner, who promised he would write the Police Chief a special letter if she passed.
At that time
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