By Jane Whyatt
Blowing the whistle on wrongdoings at work can make you an international cult hero. Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning are world famous. Many Europeans also know Antoine Deltour. But Maria Bamieh has yet to become a household name. The fifty-nine year old is still fighting through the courts to defend her reputation.
Maria Bamieh (photo: private)
At the beginning of the 2000s, after the Yugoslav Wars, Bamieh went to Kosovo as a high-powered British prosecutor to work on the United Nations and later the European Union’s Rule of Law missions. Her work involved investigating and prosecuting high level officials. Bamieh was…