Egon Scotland (7 October 1948 – 26 July 1991) was a German journalist, who was killed while covering the

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Scotland was a reporter for the '' Sueddeutsche Zeitung''. In 1991 he travelled to the breaking

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to cover the

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. On 26 July 1991 he drove to Glina with RSH reporter because they heard that some journalist had gone missing. In Glina their car, clearly labelled " press", was targeted by the troops led by

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paramilitary commander

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(nicknamed Captain Dragan). Scotland was shot in the abdomen and died in a hospital in

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. 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

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in 1994. In 2015 Dragan Vasiljkovic, a dual citizen of

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and Australia, was extradited from

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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 ''

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'' he was the only person to be convicted for the death of a journalist in the Balkan wars.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scotland, Egon 1948 births 1991 deaths 20th-century German journalists Journalists killed while covering the Yugoslav Wars

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