- Željko Kopanja
Željko Kopanja (born 1954 in
Kotor Varoš ,Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is aBosnian Serb newspaper editor and director of "Nezavisne Novine ", one of Bosnia's main paper published inBanja Luka .Kopanja holds a degree in
economics fromUniversity of Banja Luka . He began his journalist career with the Banja Luka's daily newspaper "Glas " before theBosnian War and then reported about criminal doings ofRepublika Srpska during the war forBelgrade 's weekly newspaper "Telegraf ". [http://www.aubih.ba/management.htm]He is known for giving detailed accounts of war crimes committed by the Serb forces in Bosnia [http://www.cpj.org/awards00/kopanja_articles.html] for which he received numerous complaints and death threats.
Assassination attempt
On
October 22 ,1999 , he was seriously wounded after a bomb was set in his car and exploded as he opened his car door. He lost both of his legs in that incident. The perpetrators have not been found. Kopanja continues to write for Nezavisne Novine. [http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/appendix/index.html]External links
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_18_100/ai_70379400 The Price Of The Truth]
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