Nezavisne novine

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Nezavisne Novine (English translation: Independent Newspaper) is a daily newspaper based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska entity, Milorad Dodik, provided some of funding for the launch of the newspaper. It was the first newspaper in Republika Srpska to publish articles about Serb war crimes. The paper also focuses on corruption and embezzlement. This may have led to the founder and owner, Željko Kopanja, being targeted by a car bomb which took his legs.

Željko Kopanja in an interview following the attack[1]:

I think that the Serbian people do not deserve to carry this burden because of the individuals who committed crimes in the name of the people. I do not allow anyone to commit war crimes in my name or in the name of my people, nor does anyone have the right to do that. Therefore, we opened the "Koricani" case in our newspaper, about the crimes of individuals from the Serbian police who killed 250 Bosniaks.

We believed and we still believe that Bosnia-Herzegovina can be a happy country with three constituent nations where people will live for life, not for death.

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