About Gaby Rado
Lived 1955 – 2003 (aged 48). Gaby Rado was a British journalist.
Gaby Rado (17 January 1955, in Budapest – 30 March 2003, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) was a Hungarian-British television journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion.
Life Gábor András Rado was born in Budapest, Hungary, and emigrated with his family to Britain at the age of eight. He studied at King's College School, Wimbledon, London and Christ's College, Cambridge and began work in journalism at The Kentish Times, a local newspaper.
He was a foreign correspondent at Channel 4 News, serving as Moscow correspondent. He worked in Bosnia during the war there, including Srebrenica, and subsequently covered the trial of Slobodan Milošević, work which won him two of his three Amnesty International awards. He also covered the war in Afghanistan and the status of the Uyghur in western China.
Rado had two children with his first wife, Carol Rado.
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British journalist
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Gaby Rado was born on 17 January 1955 in Budapest.
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Gaby Rado died on 30 March 2003 in Sulaymaniyah.
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Gaby Rado was a journalist.
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Gaby Rado was British.
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