
Volker Handloik (19 July 1961 – 11 November 2001) was a German freelance journalist and reporter. Born in
Rostock
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,
East Germany
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, he worked for the Hamburg-based ''
Stern
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'' for 10 years and also did some correspondence for newspapers, journals, and magazines such as the ''
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Berliner Zeitung
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Stern
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'', and the ''
Spiegel Reporter''.
[A NATION CHALLENGED: THE NEWS MEDIA; Two French Radio Journalists and a German Are Killed in Taliban Ambush of a Rebel Force]
''The New York Times
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'', November 13, 2001 Handloik, who spoke Russian and Spanish fluently often traveled to the former Soviet republics and to South America and had been working in northern Afghanistan since October 2001.
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Death
Handloik, along with French
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journalists Johanne Sutton and Pierre Billaud, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province
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, Afghanistan
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on 11 November 2001.[ The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by ]Taliban
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troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.[ Australian journalist ]Paul McGeough
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In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived ...
and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack.[ According to McGeough, Handloik died instantly from a bullet wound to the head.][
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Reaction
After learning of Handloik's death, ''Sterns chief editor Thomas Osterkorn remarked
See also
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References
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1961 births
2001 deaths
People from Rostock
People from Bezirk Rostock
German male journalists
German war correspondents
German male writers
Writers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Journalists killed while covering the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
20th-century German journalists