Journalists killed in 1991
Number of journalists killed in 1991: 84
The following list includes the names of 95 people who worked in the media and died violent deaths in 1991. Due to a lack of information surrounding the deaths the IFJ does not include all of these people in its final tally. The IFJ's official number, those who we believe died because of their journalistic activity, is 84.
Almost all of the people that we have counted were journalists, however, in some cases we have included media workers who died while working for a news organisation.
The IFJ counts all journalists killed while on reporting assignments or murdered in circumstances directly related to their journalistic activity.
country: ALGERIA
name: PHILIP SHEHADI
news organ: Reuters news agency correspondent
sector:
date: 28/02/91
source: IHT Saturday-Sunday March 2-3, from AP, Reuters
description: A Reuters news agency correspondent in Algeria was stabbed to death in his apartment in Algiers. Shehadi was a US citizen who had worked for Reuters since 1984, first in the Middle East and since 1989 in Algeria. It appears that he was killed when his apartment was robbed. NOT COUNTED
country: BRAZIL
name: IVAN ROCHA DOS SANTOS
news organ: Radio Alvorado
sector: RADIO
date: April-May/91
source: Federacao Nacional dos Jornalistas do Brasil (FENAJ), IFJ LARO which cites Venezuelan newspapers, IOJ.
description: radio journalist with the Teixeira de Freitas based Radio Alvorado was reported missing on April 22. On May 14 his badly mutilated body was found. Rocha had been reporting on death squads operating in his region and his union and colleagues believe that one of these death squads is responsible for his death.
country: CANADA
name: PRITHYI VIJ
news organ: City-TV Toronto
sector: TELEVISION
date: 31/05/91
source: CCPJ.
description: East Indian broadcaster who worked for City-TV Toronto, Global Television Network and the Toronto radio station CHIN was gunned down outside of the radio studio as he was leaving. Vij's last broadcast was a tribute to former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
country: COLOMBIA
name: DIANA TURBAY
news organ: "Hoy por Hoy"
sector: PRESS
date: 25/01/91
source: IFJ LARO, Article 19, FT, EFE, AP, IHT.
description: An editor of the weekly "Hoy por Hoy" was shot and killed by her captors Friday January 25 when the Colombian police tried to free her from the Medellin Cartel which had held her hostage since August last year. Mrs. Turbay, daughter of a former Colombian president was among the group of six journalists who were taken hostage on August 30 1990. Turbay was being held with journalist Richard Becerra. The two were told to run from the house where they were held when the police closed in. Turbay who was weak from a hunger strike was behind Bercera when one of the captors shot her three times in the back.
country: COLOMBIA
name: ANTONIO ORTIZ
news organ: "La Opinion de C£cuta"
sector: PRESS
date: 230491
source: IFJ LARO from Guillermo Restrepo
description: A journalist for the daily "La Opinion de C£cuta" was killed in the city of C£cuta, Colombia which is near the border of Colombia and Venezeula.
country: COLOMBIA
name: JULIO DANIEL CHAPARRO HURTADO
news organ: "El Espectador"
sector: PRESS
date: 24/04/91
source: IFJ LARO from Guillermo Restrepo. CPJ Letter April 26.
description: A special assignment journalists for the Bogota based daily "El Espectador" was killed while on assignment in Segovia, Colombia. Segovia in the Antioquia region is known for its violence and Hurtado was working on a story about violence in the region when he was killed. He was with the photographer Navas and the two were gunned down in the city. They were investigating an article, the fifth in a series, about a massacre of 43 people that happened in November 1988.
country: COLOMBIA
name: JORGE ENRIQUE TORRES NAVAS
news organ: "El Espectador"
sector: PRESS
date: 24/04/91
source: IFJ LARO from Guillermo Restrepo
description: photographer for the daily "El Espectador" was reporting with Hurtado in the city of Segovia in the Antioquia region of Colombia when he was murdered.
country: COLOMBIA
name: JOSE LIBARDO MENDEZ
news organ: The Voice of the Jungle (Voz de la Selva)
sector: RADIO
date: 210591
source: IFJ LARO, BBC, AP, EFE
description: Radio journalist with the Caracol affiliate The Voice of the Jungle (Voz de la Selva) was shot while driving to work with a colleague in Florencia, Colombia. Mendez and Carlos Rodriguez produced a hard-hitting current affairs program whihc often exposed corruption in official and private sectors of Florencia.
country: COLOMBIA
name: CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
news organ: The Voice of the Jungle
sector: RADIO
date: 21/05/91
source: IFJ LARO, BBC, AP, EFE
description: Radio journalist with the Caracol affiliate The Voice of the Jungle was killed by unknown gunmen while driving to work with his colleague Mendez and his wife, also a journalist, who was wounded in the attack. EFE reported that Rodriguez had received death threats in the last month and survived four gun-shot wounds in a previous attempt on his life four years ago.
country: COLOMBIA
name: ARCENIO HOYOS LOZANO
news organ: La Voz del Ariari Radio
sector: RADIO
date: 13/09/91
source: IFJ LARO who cite a UPI clipping from a Venezuelan paper.
description: The news director at La Voz del Ariari Radio, in Granada, Colombia, was gunned down on Friday morning by two unidentified gunmen as he was leaving the radio.
country: COLOMBIA
name: JULIO SERRATO
news organ:
sector:
date: 13/09/91
source: UPI 13, September 1991.
description: A journalist and communications professor died from wounds in a hospital in Bogota. Serrato had been attacked by two unidentified gunmen on Wednesday September 11 outside his home.
country: COLOMBIA
name: HENRY ROJAS MORIJES
news organ: "El Tiempo"
sector: PRESS
date: 30/12/91
source: Reuters.
description: A journalist with the Bogota based daily "El Tiempo" was shot dead in Bogota.
country: COLOMBIA
name: RAFAEL SOLANO
news organ: "El Tiempo", "El Espactador" and "Informador de Santa Marta"
sector: PRESS
date: 20/10/91
source: IFJ LARO.
description: An ex-correspondent for "El Tiempo", "El Espactador" and "Informador de Santa Marta" and the owner of a newservice and advertising agency in Fundaci¢n was gunned down in front of his house by two unknown men. Reason for the killing is not known. NOT COUNTED.
country: COLOMBIA
name: ANTONIO RIOS
news organ:
sector:
date: 14/11/91
source: IFJ LARO
description: Kindapped between the 8 - 10 he was killed on November 14. The reason for the killing and those who did it is un-known. NOT COUNTED
country: ETHIOPIA
name: JOHN MATHAI
news organ: BBC and Visnews
sector: TELEVISION
date: 04/06/91
source: The Guardian, BBC
description: Soundman working for the BBC and Visnews in Addis Ababa. Mathai was killed in the exp losion of the amunition dump which killed at least 100 people. The African bureau chief for the TV news agency Visnews Mohammed Amin was badly injured in the blast.
country: GUATEMALA
name: ANSON NG YONF
news organ: Financial Times
sector: PRESS
date: 29/07/91
source: IFJ LARO phone conversation July 31
description: Financial Times Reporter working in Guatemala. He carried a British passport. He was found bludgeoned to death on by his landlady on Monday morning. It is not yet 100% clear why he was killed but numerous sources suggest that it was because of his professional activity.
country: HAITI
name: JACQUES GARY SIMEON
news organ: Radio Caribes
sector: RADIO
date: 30/09/91
source: CPJ, RSF
description: A well known journalist with Radio Caribes whose on the air name was "Jacky Cara‹bes". He was killed by soldiers during the coup d'‚tat on September 30.
country: HAITI
name: MONTLOUIS LHERISSE
news organ: THN
sector: TELEVISION
date: 23-25/12/91
source: RSF, AFP
description: A cameraman with the Hatian television station THN. He dissapeared after a party at his television station on Monday December 23 and was identified at the Port-au-Prince morgue 48 hours later. He had been shot.
country: INDIA
name: MOHAMMAD SHABHAB VAKIL
news organ: "Al-Safa news"
sector: PRESS
date: 23/04/91
source: NUJ India, Telex 25 April. Letter from CPJ May 3.
description: Editor of the daily "Al-Safa news" was killed by unknown gunmen. It is not clear yet if he was killed by Militants or government authorities. He was known to criticise both the militants and the authorities in Kashmir. Vakil was killed in the Kashmir province of India . Two gunmen burst into the office of his newspaper and shot him.
country: INDIA
name: AMARNATH VERMA
news organ: ?/02/91
sector: Hind Samachar
date: PRESS
source: CPJ
description: A journalist with the the Hind Samachar newspaper group was shot in Armistar. It is not clear whether he was shot because he had broken the "code" set out by militant groups in the region.
country: INDIA
name: JASPAL SINGH
news organ: "Ajit"
sector: PRESS
date: ?/10/91
source: Telegram NUJ India Oct. 21.
description: Correspondent for "Ajit", one of the papers of the group Hind Samachar, was killed in Armistar in the Punjab.
country: INDONESIO/EAST-TIMOR
name: KAMAL BANA DHAL or KAMAL BAMADHAJ
news organ:
sector: PHOTOGRAPHY
date: 13/11/91
source: Kyodo, Reuters, "The Independent", Tapol (Indonesian Human Rights organisation) and the AJA.
description: A New Zealand photo journalist who was badly injured during the November 12 massacre in Dili, capital of East Timor, died in hospital a day later. Dhal was a freelance journalist and was one of a small group of foreign journalists who witnessed the attack on demonstrators as they were leaving a cemetery. He was shot three times and then transported by the International Red Cross to a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
country: IRAQ
name: GAD GROSS
news organ: "Newsweek"
sector: PHOTOGRAPHY
date: 29/03/91
source: Larry McCoy News Director of CBS Radio Networks, IHT, "The Guardian", etc.
description: A 27 year old German-Romanian photographer on assignment for the US magazine "Newsweek", (works with the JB photo organisation in Germany) was shot by Iraqi soldiers in the town of Kirkuk during the Iraqi offensive against the Kurds. Gross was with two other journalists Frank Smyth and Alain Buu. Smyth and Buu heard Gross scream and shots fired and later saw his camera-bag and papers. Smyth and Buu were also threatened, were held for two weeks and then released.
country: IRAQ
name: NICK DELLA CASA
news organ: freelance
sector: TELEVISION
date: March/April 91
source: BBC, London "Times" 28 July.
description: Cameraman in a freelance television crew which went into the north of Iraq via Turkey at the end of March. The three person crew was last sighted at the end of March not far from D'hok March/April in northern Iraq just before the Iraqi offensive. On May 23 two bodies were found near the D'hok region which were later identified as two members of the BBC crew. An investigation by Scotland Yard concludes that the journalists were most likely killed by their Turkish guide although it is possible that Iraqi soldiers were responsible.
country: IRAQ
name: CHARLES MAXWELL
news organ: freelance
sector: TELEVISION
date: March/April 91
source: BBC, London "Times" 28 July
description: The soundman in the BBC freelance television crew that dissapeared at the end of March in the north of Iraq. Maxwell's body was found in the D'hok region of Iraq on May 23. An investigation has shown that the crew was most likely killed by their Turkish guide
country: IRAQ
name: ROSANNA DELLA CASA
news organ: freelance
sector: TELEVISION
date: March/April 91
source: London "Times" 28 July
description: Member of the BBC freelance newsteam that dissapeared at the end of March. Her body has not been found but her personal belongings have been located not far from where the bodies of the other two journalists in the crew were found. It is assumed that she was also killed.
country: ISRAEL/ Occupied Territories
name: OMAR SHAHINE
news organ: Israeli Radio
sector: RADIO
date: ?
source: "Le Monde" 19-20 May
description: A Journalist with the Arabic language section of Israeli Radio was shot and killed in eastern Jerusalem.
JAPAN : 15
June 3 (Eruption of Mount UNZEN) Shortly after there were signs that there may be an eruption a large group of journalists went to Mount Unzen to follow and report on the volcano's activity. It is not yet clear what type of preperation they had, if any at all, before being sent on this assignment. The following 13 journalists and two hired drivers were killed in the eruption of the mountain. The IFJ has counted two drivers because they had a contract with media organisations and were essential for the journalists to follow the story. Other drivers were also killed, but they did not work full- time for the media. In this natural catastrophe a total of forty people died and three dissapeared and are feared to be dead.
TADAOMI TSUCHIYA Freelance cameraman.
NORIAKI SAKAMOTO Cameraman working for TV Nagasaki.
KOJI NAKAZONI Cameraman working for TV Nagasaki.
TOSHIAKI KASAI A technician working with the daily "Mainichi Shimbun". SATOSHI NISHIHARA An assistant with KBC broadcasting.
KOHICHI KURODA Photographer with Tokyo based daily " Nihon keizai Shimbun".
KOJI KOMURA Cameraman with Nippon Television.
ATSUSHI KITSUNEZAKI Assistant photographer with Nippon Television. TSUGIKAZU TAINAKA Photographer with the daily "Yomiuri Shimbun". TSUTOMU ISHIZU Photographer with the daily "Mainichi Shimbun".
YASUYAKI SHIROZUME Broadcast journalist with Asahi Television.
HIROSHI EGUCHI Photographer with KBC.
MASANORI MIYAZAKI, HIROYUKI SAITO, contracted drivers working for media organisations.
25 June
MAKIO YAUCHI Photographer for N.H.K. burned his lungs while covering the eruption. He died from lung damage after three weeks in a hospital. Killed as a result of the eruption of Mount Unzen.
Sources: Japanese Journalists attending the IFJ Regional Conference in Tokyo, June 11-12. "Asahi Shimbun" Newspaper. Nipporo, Japan Broadcasting Labour Union.
country: KUWAIT
name: DAVID THOMAS
news organ: "Financial Times"
sector: PRESS
date: 24/04/91
source: FT, April 26
description: Natural Resources Editor for the London based "Financial Times" was killed when his car was engulfed by flames in the oilfields of Kuwait. He was working with a team of FT journalists in Kuwait on a story about the reconstruction of the country. He was with photographer Alan
country: KUWAIT
name: ALAN HARPER
news organ: "Financial Times"
sector: PHOTOGRAPHY
date: 24/04/91
source: FT, April 26
description: staff photographer for the London based "Financial Times" was working on a special ass ignment in Kuwait when the car he was driving in was engulfed by flames. He was with the reporter David Thomas. The two were driving through the ignited Burgan oilfields when they were killed.
country: LATVIA
name: JURIJ BOTNIK
news organ:
sector: TELEVISION
date: 20-21/01/91
source: IJI Number 1/91 "Incidents involving journalist..." which cites "Smena" and "CSFR".
description: Cameraman killed by Soviet troops when they began their crackdown in Riga on the night of January 20-21. He was filming the action when he was shot.
country: LATVIA
name: ANDRIS SLAPINS
news organ: Latvian Documentary Film
sector: FILM
date: 20-21/01/91
source: AP, AFP, Estonian Union of Journalists.
description: A member of the Latvian Documentary Film crew was killed as the Soviet Troops began a six hour crackdown in Riga on the night of January 20-21. Mr. Slapins was filming the "Black Berets" in action. He was the first journalist recorded killed in 1991.
country: LATVIA
name: GVIDO ZVAIGZNE
news organ: Latvian Documentary Film
sector: FILM
date: 05/02/91
source: CPJ who spoke with the a Latvian Representative in the United States.
description: A Latvian documentary cameraman and producer who was fatally wounded on the night of January 20-21. Zvaigzne was filming the six hour crackdown when Soviet forces fired at him and his colleagues. He was hospitalised in Riga and on February 5 died from his wounds.
country: MEXICO
name: CARLOS ALBERTO MEDINA
news organ: "Exc‚lsior"
sector:
date: ?/02/91
source: Article 19 "Bulletin" April, Issue 11.
description: A reporter for "Exc‚lsior" was killed in his home.
country: MEXICO
name: VICTOR MANUEL OROPEZA
news organ: "Diario de Juarez"
sector: PRESS
date: 03/07/91
source: Pen American Center "Freedom-to-Write Bulletin" September/October 1991, IPI Report, October 1991, p. 3.
description: Journalist for "Diario de Juarez" was stabbed to death in state of Chihuahua. Orepeza was also a doctor. He was stabbed to death in his doctors office. In his column he regularly attacked the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). It was reported that before he was killed he had received death threats because of his daily column.
GABRIEL VANEGAS, ALEJANDRO CAMPOS, LAZARO CARDENAS,
Three other names from the Regional Office. Waiting for more detail. NOT COUNTED.
country: MYANMAR
name: NE WIN
news organ: "Asahi Shimbun"
sector: PRESS
date: 17/01/91
source: RSF who cite International Pen.
description: A correspondent for "Asahi Shimbun" in Myanmar. He was arrested on October 24, 1990. He died in detention early this year. Prison officials stated that he had died from cirrhosis of the liver.
country: PARAGUAY
name: SANTIAGO LEGUIZAMON
news organ: Radio Mburuya, "Ultima Hora" and "Diario Noticias"
sector: RADIO/PRESS
date: 26/04/91
source: IFJ LARO, CPJ letter April 26.
description: Owner and director of Radio Mburuya in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero and a correspondent for the Asuncion dailies "Ultima Hora" and "Diario Noticias" was shot dead in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Leguizamon had been threatened many times in the last year. The day that he was shot he was warned that he would be killed on that day. He was investigating corruption and contraband trafficking at the time of his death.
country: PERU
name: ARSENIO PALACIO
news organ: freelance
sector:
date: Week of March 15/91
source: IFJ LARO, article from Stein Ove Gronsund April 24.
description: Freelance journalist killed in Puerto del Caballo, Peru. It is suspected that Palacio was shot for his investigation of drug trafficking.
country: PERU
name: LUIS ANTONIO MORALES OTEGA
news organ:
sector: SCHOOL
date: 13/07/91
source: IFJ LARO phone conversation, Letter from Pen American Center
description: Gunned down by three military men dressed in civilian clothing while running from a car. Morales had received death threats from the "Comando de Liberaci¢n Antiterrorista" and "Comando Rodrigo Franco (CRF) four days before he was gunned down. At the time of the killing Morales was a journalism professor at Ayacucho Department School of Journalists.
country: PERU
name: GUSTAVO ZUNIGA UCHARICO
news organ: "Reportage a la Noticias"
sector: RADIO
date: 30/08/91
source: IFJ LARO
description: Journalist with Radio Cultura who had a daily programme "Reportage a la Noticias". Killed in the town of Puno. Zuniga's colleagues have suggested that the terrorist organisation Sendero Luminoso was responsible.
country: PERU
name: MELISSA ALFARO
news organ: "Cambio"
sector: PRESS
date: 10/10/91
source: AFP, CPJ
description: Alfaro opened a letter-bomb that was sent to the weekly "Cambio" where she worked as a young journalist. She was alone at the journal at the time of the explosion. The director of the journal, Carlos Aroyo is known to report regularly on the TUPAC terrorist group. He said that he believed the killing was undertaken by "a paramilitary right-wing group". Another bomb had arrived in June at a house next door by error killing one person.
country: PERU
name: JULIO CESAR SERRATO
news organ:
sector: SCHOOL
date: 11:09:91
source: El Espectador/Judicial in Peru, September 13, 1991
description: Professor of journalism, and director of advertising at an Industry in Manizales was killed by two unknown gunmen in Manizales. It is not yet clear the reason for the killing. NOT COUNTED.
country: PERU
name: ANTONIO HUACCACHI CHAVEZ
news organ:
sector:
date: 16/10/91
source: IFJ LARO fax October 28.
description: A journalist in Ayacucho. He was killed by three unknown gunmen. Waiting for more details.
country: PERU
name: JOSE ANGEL DE GUILLEN CHACON
news organ: San Roman de Juliaca radio
sector: RADIO
date: 17/10/91
source: IFJ LARO, October 28.
description: Killed in Juliaca (Northern Peru). He was the director of the San Roman de Juliaca radio news magazine "Opini¢n" and he wrote for "El Diario", "El Publico" and "La Equipa".
country: PERU
name: CIRILIO ORE ENRIQUEZ
news organ: "Expreso"
sector: PRESS
date: 27/10/91
source: IFJ LARO fax October 28.
description: A correspondent for "Expreso" and the leader of the journalists' union in Ayacucho. He was shot and then stabbed by two unkown men. The terrorist organisation Sendero Luminoso has said that they were responsible for his death.
country: PHILIPPINES
name: NESINO PAULIN TOLING
news organ: "Panguil Bay Monitor"
sector: PRESS
date: 14/04/91
source: FT April 16, 1991. Letter from CPJ.
description: Editor and Publisher of the "Panguil Bay Monitor" was shot by an unidentified gunman in the southern Philippines city of Ozamis. Toling was reported to have been an outspoken critic of the irregularities in local government and the military. At the time he was killed he was working on an article about a local drug lord.
country: PHILIPPINES
name: CANDIDO BASILISCO
news organ: "Philippine Puncher"
sector: PRESS
date: 08/05/91
source: AP, AFP.
description: Chief editor of the weekly "Philippine Puncher" was shot to death in a restaurant in Cebu city by two assailants. Basilisco was a former union leader in Cebu city, which is a large industrial and transport center. The motive of the killing is not yet known. NOT
country: PHILIPPINES
name: NICK T. ENCISO
news organ:
sector: PRESS
date: 26/05/91
source: "Manila Bulletin" May 27, 1991
description: A veteran journalist, a widely syndicated columnist, former director of the Philippine's National Press Club and President of the Federation of Provinicial Press Clubs of the Philippines (FPPCP) was shot and stabbed in his home in Tagatay City. Enciso was also a leader in his village and was president of the Katipunan ng mga Barangay (PKB), a national organization of 45,000 villages. One of his two assailants was a sergeant in the Philippines army. It is not clear that Enciso was killed for his journalistic activities. Enciso is the 30th journalist killed since 1986. NOT COUNTED
country: SOUTH AFRICA
name: AZIZ TASSIEM
news organ: Visnews
sector:
date: 04/08/91
source: "The Nation" in Kenya, Reuters, AP.
description: A journalist working for Visnews in South Africa. He was killed in a car accident while driving from a rescue center in the Transkei black homeland. He was driving a rented car with two colleagues when it went out of control on a dirt road. He was covering the sinking of a Greek cruise ship. He had worked for Visnews in South Africa for four years.
country: SOVIET UNION
name: SALATYNA ASKEROVA
news organ:
sector:
date: 09/01/91
source: IOJ Newsletter 3-4/91, IJI Number 1/91 cites "Pravda" and "CSFR".
description: An Azerbaidjan journalist was killed in the Nagorno Karabakh region. She was 29 years old. The Azerbaidjan Ministry of the Interior claims that she was killed by Armenian terrorists.
country: SOVIET UNION
name: IVAN FOMIN
news organ: "Znamja"
sector: PRESS
date: 11/01/91
source: "Le Monde" Jan. 13-14, 1991. IJI Number 1/91 cites "Rud‚ Pr…vo" and "CSFR".
description: The editor-and-chief of "Znamja", a regional journal in Kaluga, was shot to death in his office in Kaluga one of his colleagues Gennadij Golokov was also seriously injured. The shooting was reported to have been for political reasons.
country: THAILAND
name: VITTON KAVAYAPANIK
news organ: "Thai Rath"
sector: PRESS
date: 16/05/91
source: RSF, International Pen
description: Editor and chief of "Thai Rath". He was murdered on the street in Bangkok.
country: USA
name: JEAN-CLAUDE OLIVIER
news organ: "Radyo Pep la"
sector: RADIO
date: 18/02/91
source: RSF, CPJ, "Haiti ProgrŠs" 20-26 March, 1991, "Haiti Observateur" 20-27 March, 1991.
description: Hatian radio journalist with "Radyo Pep la". He was murdered in Miami's "little Haiti" neighbourhood. International Pen has said that he had received death threats. It appears that he was killed because of his political opinions.
country: USA
name: FRITZ DOR
news organ: "Veye Yo" and "Radyo Tet Ansanm"
sector: RADIO
date: 15/03/91
source: RSF, CPJ, "Haiti Observateur" 20-27 March, 1991.
description: Hatian radio journalist working with WKAT Radio "Veye Yo" and "Radyo Tet Ansanm" (broadcast from the radio station WLQY) was shot just after leaving his office. International Pen reported that he had recieved death threats just before he was killed.
country: USA
name: JOSEPH CASOLARO
news organ:
sector:
date: 10/08/91
source: AP, Reuters, CJR
description: A Journalist found dead in Martinsberg, West Virginia. He was found in a bathtub with 16 cuts on his two wrists. He had been working on a book which he considered to have been dangerous. He had mentioned to his family that if he died they should be suspicious about the circumstances. From other sources it appears that Casolaro was on the trail of an explosive story but there is not enough evidence to say for certain that he was murdered. NOT COUNTED.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: NORBERT WERNER
news organ: freelance
sector: PRESS
date: 28:08:91
source: AP, Article 19
description: Freelance Austrian reporter whose car was destroyed by a missile on the runway of the Lujubijana airport. He was caught in the combat between Slovenian and Yugoslav troops.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: NIKOLAS VOGEL
news organ:
sector:
date: 28:08:91
source: AP, Article 19
description: Killed with Norbert Werner.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: EGON SCOTLAND
news organ: S?ddeutsche Zeitung
sector: PRESS
date: Week of July 22 - 26/91
source: DJV, Sindikat Njemackih Medija, IHT
description: Reporter for the Munich based daily S?ddeutsche Zeitung was shot while driving in a car clearly marked press near Glina in Croatia, Yugoslavia. It appears that Serbian guerillas were responsible for the attack on Scotland and another four cars full of journalists.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: STJEPAN PENIC
news organ: "Glas Slavonije"
sector: RADIO
date: 04 or06/08/91
source: Fax from the Slovene Journalist Society Ljubljana, September 30.
description: Radio producer and correspondent for "Glas Slavonije" was killed on a soccer field in Dalj. His body was left on the ground for a few days and then burned by Serbian combatants.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: GORDAN LEDERER
news organ: Television Hrvatska
sector: TELEVISION
date: 10/08/91
source: BBC, "Financial Times" August 12, "Le Soir", August 12. Fax from the Slovene Journalist Society Ljubljana, August 12.
description: A cameraman with Croation Television Hrvatska died after being shot by a Serbian soldier and and then getting hit again in a mortar attack in the village of Kostajnica, south-east of Zagreb. Sources say that the Yugoslav People's Army did not give Lederer access or permission to be flown to Zagreb by helicopter. He died after arriving in Zagreb by car. The army has denied these reports.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: ZARKO KAIC
news organ:
sector: TELEVISION
date: 28/08/91
source: CPJ letter of August 30
description: A cameraman with Croatian Television was killed outside of the town of Osijek. He was with a soundman, Dragan Kricka, who was severely wounded. According to reports a Yugoslav army vehicle opened fire on the two journalists.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: DJURO PODBOJ
news organ:
sector: TELEVISION
date: 29/08/91
source: Fax from the Slovene Journalist Society Ljubljana, September 30.
description: A Croatian television technician was killed in Beli Manastir in Slovenia. It is likely that he was killed during an attack on this town while he was working on the Belige transmitter.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: NIKOLA STOJANAC
news organ:
sector: TELEVISION
date: 15/09/91
source: Fax from the Slovene Journalist Society Ljubljana, September 30.
description: A Croatian television technician was killed in the Gospic area while filming Federal army jet shooting at deserted buildings.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: PIERRE BLANCHET
news organ: "Nouvel Observateur"
sector: PRESS
date: 20/09/91
source: AFP, AP, ATS
description: A foreign correspondent for the French weekly the "Nouvel Observateur" was killed when the car he was in hit a mine while approaching the federal army barracks in the Croatian town, Petrinja. Blanchet was with a Swiss radio technician, Patrick Riganti, who was badly injured in the explosion. It has been reported that by the Croatian news-agency Hina that Croatian gaurds had advised the journalists no to approach the barracks.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: DAMIEN RUEDIN
news organ: Swiss radio
sector: RADIO
date: 20/09/91
source: ATS
description: A reporter for the French-language Swiss radio who was travelling with Blanchet was also killed in the mine explosion on September 20. At first Ruedin's whereabouts was unknown and later his radio announced that he was killed in the mine explosion.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: PETER BRYSKY
news organ: freelance
sector: PHOTOGRAPHY
date: 06/10/91
source: CCPJ, AP
description: A Canadian freelance photographer was killed in a mortar attack near Karlovac. It does not appear that he was targeted. He had only been in Yugoslavia for four days and had sold pictures to the Associated Press.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: MILAN ZEGARAC
news organ: "Vecernje Novosti"
sector: PRESS
date: Weekend 5-6 /10/91
source: RSF, AFP
description: A journalist working for the Belgrade based daily "Vecernje Novosti" was killed in Vukovar over the weekend. He appears to have been caught in a cross fire.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: ZORAN AMIDZIC, BORA PETROVIC, DEJAN MILICEVIC and SRETEN ILIC
news organ:
sector: TELEVISION
date: 09/10/91
source: AFP
description: A television team from Belgrade was killed in Banija, South of Zagreb, by a mortar shot at their car by Croatian forces. No report of press markings on car.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: JUSUF CEHAJIC
news organ: "Vecernje Novosti"
sector: PRESS
date: 12/10/91
source: RSF, AFP
description: A corespondent for the Belgrade based "Vecernje Novosti" in Vukovar was killed by a shell explosion.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: BODIN MARJANOVIC
news organ: FREELANCE
sector: PRESS
date: 14/11/91
source: AFP which cites the official Yugoslavian news agency Tanjug.
description: A freelance Yugoslavian journalist who was killed in Vukovar. It appears that he was caught in crossfire as there was fighting when he was hit. The Association of Serbian Journalists reported his death.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: PAVO URBAN
news organ: "Dubrovnik vjesnik"
sector: PHOTOGRAPHY
date: 07/12/91
source: RSF, AP, AFP
description: A photographer for the Dubrovnik based "Dubrovnik vjesnik" was killed while the Yugoslav Federal Army was bombing Dubrovnik.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: ZIVO KRSTICEVIC
news organ: World Television News (WTN)
sector: TELEVISION
date: 30/12/91
source: Reuters
description: A Croatian cameraman working for World Television News (WTN) was killed by a mortar in the Croatian town of Karlovac. According to his producer at WTN Krsticevic was on a vacated road when a sole mortar was fired at his car. It is not yet certain whether the car was marked "TV" or "PRESS". Two other journalists, travelling with Krsticevic, were injured in the explosion.
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: VICTOR NOGIN, GENNADY KURENOI
news organ: Soviet television
sector: TELEVISION
date: 09-10/91
source: Union of Soviet Journalists, Association of Independent Trade Unions of Journalists, AFP.
description: Two Soviet television journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, were reported missing on September 5. They were last seen on September 3 in Eastern Slovenia near the town of Vukovar. An extensive search was conducted by a specially organised Soviet search committee, which was helped by the Belgrade based Association of Independent Trade Unions of Journalists. On October 9 the President of the Soviet Committee, Andre Rojdov, announced that his committee was "98% certain" that the two journalists were dead. Throughout October, November and December there was no news of the two men.
Missing and Feared dead: NOT COUNTED
country: YUGOSLAVIA
name: SINISA GLAVASEVIC
news organ: Vukovar radio
sector: RADIO
date: 11/91
source: Croatian Society of Journalists, Croatian Foreign Press Bureau.
description: A well known radio journalist who worked with Vukovar radio. He was last seen when Yug oslav Federal Army troops pulled him from a convoy that was leaving Vukovar. In early December Dr. Juraj Njavro, who had just been released by the Yugoslav Federal Army, said that Glavasevic had been executed.
Abbreviations
Amn. Int. = Amnesty International, London
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
CAJ = The Canadian Association of Journalists, Ottawa
CJR = Columbia Journalist Review, New York
CPJ = Committee to Protect Journalists, New York
CCPJ = The Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists, Toronto
DJV = Deutscher JournalistenVerband, IFJ Member union, Bonn
IFJ LARO = IFJ's Latin American Regional Office, Caracas
IHT = International Herald Tribune, Paris
IJI = International Journalism Institute, Prague
IOJ = International Organisation of Journalists, Prague
FT = Financial Times, London
LARO = IFJ's Latin American Regional Office, Caracas
NUJ = National Union of Journalists, Designated country
RSF = Reporters Sans Frontières, Montpellier Wire Services
AFP
UPI
AP
EFE
ATS
