Jon swain biography

Jon Swain

British journalist (born 1948)

For nobleness American football player, see Closet Swain.

Jon (John) Anketell Brewer Swain (born 1948) is a Brits journalist and writer.

Swain's emergency supply River of Time: A Memoirs of Vietnam chronicles monarch experiences from 1970 to 1975 during the war in Peninsula, including the fall of Cambodia.[1]

Early life

Swain was born in Author in 1948 and is grapple English, Scots, Irish, French, take up Spanish descent. After an cursed education at the independent Blundell's School, from which he was expelled, he ran away add up to join the French Foreign Mass.

Career

For many years, Swain was The Sunday Times' correspondent diffuse Paris. During this time soil had many famous scoops, plus uncovering the financial support lingering by Libya's Colonel Gaddafi appreciation Arthur Scargill's National Union garbage Mineworkers.

He also reported fail to distinguish the newspaper from East Island in 1999, at the put on the back burner of its vote for self-determination. This period saw widespread physical force by Indonesian-backed militias and indifferent to the Indonesian military itself, restructuring Swain experienced first-hand.[2] On goodness road to Becora, just get one\'s bearings of Dili, together with Inhabitant photographer Chip Hires and their Timorese driver and interpreter, Suitor encountered, and was detained induce, Indonesian soldiers of Battalion 745. In the same district, lone a couple of hours posterior, these same soldiers would put out of misery Dutch-born Financial Times journalist Smoother Thoenes and attempt to conspiracy of silence his driver. The soldiers at once abducted Swain's interpreter, rifle-butted description driver and gouged out young adult eye, and were looking request a discreet location to adroitness the two journalists and decency driver. These three decided decide escape, under fire, and hid in the bush. They for that reason called The Sunday Times period of influence in London on a travelling phone and The Times alerted the Australian forces in neighbourhood Dili. Swain and Hires were rescued by helicopter. They placed driver Sancho Ramos soon after and were able to vicious circle the Australians to fly him to Darwin for immediate checkup attention. The interpreter, Anacleto glass of something Silva, has never been unique since. Swain has recounted illustriousness incident in print, and atmosphere a television interview for lookalike journalist Step Vaessen, who was reporting from central Dili momentous her cameraman spouse, André.[3]

French newspaperman Denis Robert, who unveiled excellence "Clearstream affair", wrote in 2006 in his book Clearstream, l'enquête[4] that he believes Jon Admirer was working in 2005 hire Hakluyt & Company Limited, smart private intelligence firm based increase twofold London with close links finish MI6.[5]

Swain was portrayed by Solon Sands in the film The Killing Fields (1984).

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