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Željko Kopanja (21 October 1954 – 8 August 2016) was a Bosnian newspaper editor and director of the newspaper Nezavisne Novine. The Christian Science Monitor described him as an equal critic of all parties without regard to ethnicity and "probably the most feared journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Following the paper's reporting on atrocities committed by Bosnian Serbs, Kopanja was denounced by some groups as a traitor, and began to receive death threats. [2] On October 22, 1999, Kopanja was nearly killed by a car bomb that exploded as he turned the ignition key. [5] [6] A nearby hospital amputated both of his legs. [7]
The Serbian newspaper Nezavisne novine, led by editor Željko Kopanja, sought to draw attention to war crimes committed during the Bosnian war and to bring those responsible for the Koricani massacre to justice. In the late 1990s, it published a series of reports detailing the Koricani shooting and the inaction of the authorities to find the ...
The first editor was Željko Kopanja. Following the paper's reporting on atrocities committed by Bosnian Serbs, Kopanja was denounced by some groups as a traitor, and began to receive death threats. [2] On 22 October 1999, he was nearly killed by a car bomb that exploded as he turned the ignition key. A nearby hospital amputated both of his legs.
Željko Kopanja, the editor of the independent newspaper Nezavisne Novine, was seriously hurt by a car bomb after he had published stories detailing atrocities committed by Serbs against Bosniaks during the Bosnian War. He believed that the bomb was planted by Serbia's security services to stop him from publishing further stories.
Other sources cite a death toll of 33 killed. [96] Uzdol massacre: 14 September 1993 Uzdol: ARBiH: Croats: 25 [97]-30 [98] ARBiH forces killed at least 25 Croat civilians. Stupni Do massacre: 23 October 1993 Stupni Do: HVO: Bosniaks: 37–44 Croatian Defence Council (HVO) kills 37–44 Bosniak civilians. [99] Križančevo selo massacre: 22 ...
The award was given posthumously on three occasions: to David Kaplan, an ABC News producer killed by a sniper in Sarajevo in 1992; [6] to Paul Klebnikov, a Russian Forbes journalist shot to death in 2004 by unknown attackers; [15] and to Atwar Bahjat, an Iraqi journalist for Al Arabiya who was abducted and murdered in February 2006. [16]
Nezavisni dnevnik Vijesti (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ʋijêːsti]; English translation: News) is a Montenegrin daily newspaper.. The paper is published and managed by an entity called Daily Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Podgorica.