Egon Scotland (7 October 1948 – 26 July 1991) was a German journalist, who was killed while covering the
Yugoslav Wars
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.
Biography
Scotland was a reporter for the ''
Sueddeutsche Zeitung''. In 1991 he travelled to the breaking
Yugoslavia
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to cover the
Croatian War of Independence.
On 26 July 1991 he drove to
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with RSH reporter because they heard that some journalist had gone missing. In Glina their car, clearly labelled "
press
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", was targeted by the troops led by
Serb
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paramilitary commander
Dragan Vasiljković
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(nicknamed Captain Dragan). Scotland was shot in the abdomen and died in a hospital in
Sisak. Other civilians were murdered in the same ambush.
Scotland was married to , also a journalist.
Shortly after his death his colleagues founded the Munich-based association ''Journalisten helfen Journalisten'' (Journalists help Journalists, Jhl). His death contributed also to the foundation of the German section of
Reporters Without Borders in 1994.
In 2015 Dragan Vasiljkovic, a dual citizen of
Serbia
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and Australia, was extradited from
Perth
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to Croatia, where in 2017 he was found guilty of war crimes, including the death of Scotland, and sentenced to 15 years of jail.
According to ''
Balkan Insight'' he was the only person to be convicted for the death of a journalist in the Balkan wars.
See also
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List of journalists killed in Europe
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While journalists in the European Union (EU) generally work in good conditions, there are cases of murdered journalists, and many of them remain unpunished. Thi ...
References
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1948 births
1991 deaths
20th-century German journalists
Journalists killed while covering the Yugoslav Wars