Damir Kaletović is a multiple-award-winning investigative journalist from

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. He is a former reporter fo
FTV
the public-service broadcasting organization of the

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: ''Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine'' / ''Федерација Босне и Херцеговине'') is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities composing Bo ...

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of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former co-host of the FTV-sponsored political talk show "60 Minutes"
60 minuta
, and a former reporter fo
OBN Television
He is best known for his high-profile role as co-host of "60 Minutes", which controversially investigated issues related post-war corruption and war crimes. He has won numerous awards, including (but not limited to): * 2005
Most Deserving Journalist of the Year
in Bosnia-Herzegovina. * 2005 Max Magazine Television Personality "Man of the Yea

* 2008 San News "Best Person of the Year" During his career, he has been the target of various threats, some of them openly expressed. His work has been perceived as controversial by Bosnia-Herzegovina's main ethno-nationalist political parties: the Bosniak Muslim

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(SDA); the

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(HDZ); and the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). He became unpopular among some nationalist groupings of Bosniak Muslims for his reporting on terrorism in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, and specifically for his reporting on the Algerian Group in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In some of his

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s he accused six

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ns of alleged

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

. He also sparked criticism for his reporting on

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and the

war crimes A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hos ...

Alija Izetbegović Alija Izetbegović (; 8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosopher and author, who in 1992 became the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, president of the Presidency ...

, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has equally been viewed as controversial for his reporting on corruption, organized crime and war crimes in the Bosnian Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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