1994 roadside attack on Spin magazine journalists

Attack during the Bosnian War 1994 roadside attack on Magnolia News and Spin magazine journalists 1994 5 1 4:00 P.M. 2 1 Croats and Bosnian government troops Land mines In the 1994 roadside attack on Spin magazine journalists on May Day during the Bosnian War, two journalists, Bryan Brinton and Francis William Tomasic, were killed by a landmine, and journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was injured near Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.http://elpais.com/diario/1994/05/02/internacional/767829605_850215.html La explosión de una mina mata a dos periodistas de EE UU cerca de Mostar Ediciones El País EL PAÍS Description Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 280 left Mostar is in Bosnia and Herzegovina and shown relative to its capital city Sarajevo. Location of Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina 43 51 23.148 N 18 24 48.312 E Sarajevo right Bosnia and Herzegovina 43 51 23.148 N 18 24 48.312 E Sarajevo rightWilliam T. Vollmann, Bryan Brinton, and Francis William Tomasic, United States journalists, were in a jeep driving through the north of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina,https://newrepublic.com/article/118748/william-t-vollmanns-dangerously-uncorrupted-literary-mind William T. Vollmann Interview: A Dangerously Uncorrupted Literary Mind - New Republic Tom Bissell 23 July 2014 New Republic when they had driven off the main road in territory controlled by the Bosnian army. While driving on this road, the vehicle ran over a landmine at around 4:00 p.m. on 1 May 1994.https://apnews.com/6cfab08d0c92b8c0f3df24bcb82f8b00 Landmine Kills Two Photographers, Wounds Writer With PM-Yugoslavia Associated Press News http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:H26MY4-781: Congressional Record - 103rd Congress (1993-1994) - THOMAS (Library of Congress)August 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-02-mn-53000-story.html 2 Journalists Killed, 1 Hurt After Hitting Mine in Bosnia Los Angeles Times The mine injured and hospitalized Vollmann and killed Brinton and Tomasic.http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19940502-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- The Stanford Daily 2 May 1994 — The Stanford Dailyhttp://m.newsok.com/press-freedom-day/article/2465023 Press Freedom Day 2016-02-29 2016-05-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20160531104624/http://m.newsok.com/press-freedom-day/article/2465023 dead Bryan Brinton Bryan William Brinton, also known as William Ryan (June 16, 1949May 1, 1994), grew up in Crown Hill, Washington. Brinton was the youngest of three brothers from the West Seattle area. He used the name William Ryan at times because it was his middle name and his mother's maiden name. Brinton was enlisted in the army from June 18, 1968 – March 20, 1971 and toured the Vietnam War as a medic. After breaking up with a girlfriend when he was 44 years old, Brinton began studying photojournalism and family therapy at Shoreline Community College, hoping to one day pursue photography and journalism full-time rather than landscaping (Brinton owned a landscaping business, Northwest Pacific Tree Service, for most of his adult life.https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19940503/1908638/seattle-man-was-third-brother-who-died Local News - Seattle Man Was Third Brother Who Died - Seattle Times Newspaper). Brinton traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to gain access to press credentials.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19940502&id=IHRUAAAAIBAJ&pg=3592,7080&hl=en Ellensburg Daily Record - Google News Archive Searchhttps://books.google.com/books?id=1Cbu97w3w9YC&q=brian+brinton+journalist&pg=PA223 The People, Press, and Politics of Croatia 9780275965433 Malović Stjepan Selnow Gary W. 2001 Bloomsbury Academic There he contacted Magnolia News on April 25, 1994, from Croatia and offered his photographs in exchange for press credentials.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19940502&id=WvQ0AAAAIBAJ&pg=4957,24597&hl=en Moscow-Pullman Daily News - Google News Archive Search He wanted to take pictures in war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina.http://journalistsunderfire.silk.co/page/Brian-Brinton Brian-Brinton - Journalists Under Fire Journalists Under Fire 2016-02-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20160427071733/http://journalistsunderfire.silk.co/page/Brian-Brinton 2016-04-27 deadhttps://www.orlandosentinel.com/1995/05/03/killed-in-the-line-of-duty-the-risk-some-journalists-face/ Killed In The Line Of Duty - The Risk Some Journalists Face tribunedigital-orlandosentinel 2016-02-29 2016-10-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20161010002100/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-05-03/news/9505030557_1_protect-journalists-12-journalists-alan-berg livehttps://www.cpj.org/killed/1994/brian-brinton.php Brian Brinton Committee to Protect Journalists May 1, 1994 Francis William Tomasic Francis William Tomasic (26 April 19581 May 1994), a freelance photographer, age 36, was from Bloomington, Indiana, and attended high school there.25091369 Witnessing Tragedy, Looking at Risk: Rolf Zimmermann Revisited The Massachusetts Review 38 4 497–511 Chametzky Peter 1997 Tomasic was a friend of William T. Vollmann; they met while attending the same high school. After high school, Tomasic got his degree in Serbo-Croatian language from Cornell University.http://www.nwitimes.com/uncategorized/news-in-brief/article_fa610eab-6431-544d-a111-cda3a78f96f2.html News in brief Associated Press 3 May 1994 nwitimes.com Vollmann studied Comparative Literature at Cornell.http://www.altx.com/int2/william.t.vollmann.html An Interview with William T. Vollmann Both ended up on the trip to Bosnia. Tomasic's father was a professor at Indiana University. He was of Croatian descent. Tomasic was working as a freelance photographer and translator for Spin magazine.http://journaltimes.com/news/at-a-glance/article_4c118575-8baa-5953-841d-ab82bd639ea8.html AT A GLANCE Journal Times His friends say that he was an aspiring journalist and that is what drew him to Bosnia and Herzegovina. A friend of Francis stated, "I think Fran thought that there might be some way to help people understand what was going on in Yugoslavia if some journalists could talk to the people at the helm."https://cpj.org/killed/1994/francis-tomasic.php Francis Tomasic Committee to Protect Journalists May 1, 1994 Context Mostar was the location of the conflict between Bosnian Croats and Muslims. The land mine which the vehicle ran over was near a dam at Salakovac, north of Mostar in Bosnia. A U.N. Military spokesman stated the unrest in the area was the worst fights between Bosnian Serbs and U.N. forces in Bosnia in 2 years, when the fighting first began in the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19940502&id=1SgxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6560,771629&hl=en Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search Toledo Blade About 3 million mines were laid down during this war.R. Clemente Holder Egyptian Lawyer's Death Triggers Cairo Protests Washington Report on Middle East Affairs July–August 1994 60–62 http://www.wrmea.org/1994-july-august/human-rights-egyptian-lawyer-s-death-triggers-cairo-protests.html Reactions In a tribute to Francis Tomasic on May 26, 1994, in the United States House of Representatives, a speech was given to honor him. The speech mentioned that the combat zones are unpredictable, with the ones in the new Republic of Yugoslavia being the most unforeseeable. An acquaintance of Tomasic stated he had "inexhaustible sweetness and that he was not someone who understood malice." See also Spin (magazine) Kurt Schork, another US journalist who covered the Bosnian war and who was killed on assignment in Sierra Leone. List of journalists killed in Europe References External links The Journalists Memorial Category:American war correspondents Category:Bosnian War Spin magazine journalists Category:Journalists killed while covering the Yugoslav Wars Category:Landmine victims Category:May 1994 in Europe