Željko Kopanja, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Željko Kopanja

Bosnian journalist

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1954

Place of Birth: Kotor Varoš, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 08-Aug-2016

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Željko Kopanja (21 October 1954 – 8 August 2016) was a Bosnian Serb newspaper editor and director of the newspaper Nezavisne Novine.
The Christian Science Monitor described him as an equal critic of all parties without regard to ethnicity and "probably the most feared journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina." On August 8, 2016 Željko Kopanja died from a cardiac arrest. In October 1999, he lost both legs in a car bomb attack in apparent retaliation for his reporting on war crimes by Bosnian Serbs.