[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 69 (Friday, May 9, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E922-E923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH NEUFFER

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                         HON. MARTIN T. MEEHAN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 9, 2003

  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a Elizabeth 
Neuffer, a Boston Globe journalist who died in a car accident today 
while covering the conflict in Iraq.
  Elizabeth was a well-respected journalist with the Globe, New 
England's largest daily newspaper. During the 1980s, she won a 
reputation for courageous reporting for her work on war crimes in the 
Balkans. She went on to report from Rwanda after the genocide; from 
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq during the first Gulf War; and from the 
Soviet Union during the transition from Gorbachev to Yeltsin.
  Her most recent assignment was the United Nations, and after covering 
the war in Afghanistan, she underwent training for reporters to be 
imbedded in Iraq and was helping to cover the ongoing conflict with her 
colleagues at the Globe. She was passionate about covering the 
reconstruction effort, and at the time of her death she was working on 
a story about efforts to remove the influence of the Ba'ath Party.
  Her unique perspective as a reporter covering the realities of 
genocide helped her transfer an abstract debate about war crimes 
prosecution into a book, ``The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking 
Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda.''
  Among her many awards while serving as the Globe's European bureau 
chief were the Courage in Journalism Award, as well as the Edward R. 
Murrow Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.
  Elizabeth once said, ``The truth may be hazardous to those who tell 
it, but truth is not dangerous, disinformation is. As I saw in Bosnia 
and Rwanda, it is propaganda that fans the flames of hatred.''
  Elizabeth will be missed not only by her family, friends, and those 
who loved her, but by those of us who had the privilege to work with 
her in the world of politics and journalism.

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