Controversy
In an October 2008 interview with the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Burns accused Kabulov of being a KGB operative. Burns was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing "his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Some of Burns's reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina was later put in doubt for using questionable sources. Within the book Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting Journalism & Tragedy in Yugoslavia, Burns is criticised extensively, accused of journalistic malpractice by its author Peter Brock.
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