Takis Michas
Takis Michas (Greek: Τάκης Μίχας) is a Greek journalist and author who lives in Athens, where he works for the Greek daily "Eleftherotypia" and contributes to the "Wall Street Journal Europe". He has written extensively about the Greek involvement in the Bosnian war, especially in the Srebrenica massacre. Journalism. In 1989 he received the European Union Journalists Award for his published columns on the crisis in Poland during the 1980s. In 2002 he received the Greek Botsis Prize for Journalism for his reports on Slobodan Milosevic’s bank assets in Greece. He has written articles for the Wall  Street Journal, the National Interest, the New Republic, Huffington Post, Greek journals and others. He was nominated for the 2011 Bastiat Prize for three articles: "Greece's Bailout Brinksmanship", "Athens Descends into Anarchy", and "A Greek Tragedy". Greek Volunteer Guard controversy. In 2010 he faced an action for criminal libel following his reference in an article for Eleftherotypia to allegations that the Greek Volunteer Guard took part in the Srebrenica massacre and raised the Greek flag over Srebrenica. At the last minute Stavros Vitalis, a former Greek officer in the Bosnian Serb Army who considered the quoted use of the  term "paramilitary" an insult to the Greek volunteer forces in Bosnia, abandoned the action. The quality, thoroughness and courage of Michas's reporting of the military support that Greek "volunteers" gave the Bosnian Serb side during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and the reluctance of successive Greek governments to investigate the issue was highlighted in Reporters Sans Frontieres's criticism of what the organisation described as a "surreal" action and a clear case of judicial harassment. Bibliography. Michas is the author of the following books: "H Μαυρη Βιβλος της Ελληνικης Οικονομιας" (The Black Book of the Greek Economy) (Athens :Oxý (Οξύ) 2016)