Željko Kopanja
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Željko Kopanja (born 1954 in Kotor Varoš, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb newspaper editor and director of Nezavisne Novine, one of Bosnia's main independent paper published in Banja Luka.
Kopanja holds a degree in economics from University of Banja Luka. He began his journalist career with the Banja Luka's daily newspaper Glas before the Bosnian War and then reported about criminal doings of Republika Srpska during the war for Belgrade's weekly newspaper Telegraf.[1]
He is known for giving detailed accounts of war crimes committed by the Serb forces in Bosnia[2] for which he received numerous complaints and death threats.
[edit] 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.[3]
