MM Focus: Atrocities in Bosnia changed military man’s view of life HE was a decorated soldier in his nearly 20 years in the Malaysian Armed Forces, having won three merit awards from Britain’s acclaimed Sandhurst Military Academy. But Lt-Kol Abdul Manaf Kamsuri’s nine-month stint in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a member of the United Nations Protection Force (Unprofor) between 1993 and 1994, apparently changed his entire perspective of life. As a Unprofor senior liaison officer, serving under Lt-General Francis Briquemont and Lt-General Sir Michael Rose, he witnessed atrocities – Bosnian Muslims being tortured and killed, and the gang rape of women and...