Gordana Knežević (Serbian: Гордана Кнежевић; born July 1950 in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-born journalist. A former deputy editor of Oslobođenje, she covered the siege of Sarajevo from 1992–94. From 1996, she was based in Toronto, Canada as the online desk editor at Reuters.[1] She served two terms at the Board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.[2] She is now based in Prague and writes "Balkans Without Borders" for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She was head of the RFE/RL Balkan Service from 2008–16.[3]
An excerpt from her article in the Toronto Star on 11 April 1999:
"I was a Serb besieged by Serbs. And I identified with each person in Sarajevo exposed to Serb shelling. I witnessed the pain of Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Jews and Serbs who were forced from their homes. I could not possibly identify with the people who had started all the shooting, or lend the perpetrators of that action moral support through silence."[4]