Attacks on the Press 1999: 1999 Death Toll: Listed by Country
March 22, 2000 12:10 PM ET
[Click here for full list of documented cases] At its most fundamental level, the job of a journalist is to bear witness. In 1999, journalists in Sierra Leone witnessed rebels' atrocities against civilians in the streets of Freetown. In the...
Attacks on the Press 1999: Yugoslavia
March 22, 2000 12:00 PM ET
President Slobodan Milosevic first used the threat of war, then an actual war, and finally international hostility toward his regime to justify the use of government censorship and crippling fines to decimate Serbia's various independent media. The press crackdown was...
CPJ Alert: German journalists killed in Kosovo
June 14, 1999 12:00 AM ET
June 14, 1999 -- Two German journalists on assignment in Kosovo were fatally shot by unidentified gunmen on June 13 just outside Dulje, some 25 miles south of the provincial capital Pristina. Veteran photographer Volker Kraemer, 56, died on the...
Volker Kraemer
June 13, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Volker Kraemer, 56, a photographer, and Gabriel Gruener, 35, a correspondent, were on assignment in Kosovo for the German magazine Stern. The two journalists and their interpreter, Senol Alit, were returning by car to Macedonia when they encountered sniper fire...
Gabriel Gruener
June 13, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Volker Kraemer, 56, a photographer, and Gabriel Gruener, 35, a correspondent, were on assignment in Kosovo for the German magazine Stern. The two journalists and their interpreter, Senol Alit, were returning by car to Macedonia when they encountered sniper fire...