was treacherrously murdered on 9th August 1991,
by a mercenary gang of Chetniks while holding a camera in
his hand, and that, thanks to the Chetnik collaborator,
General Raseta, he was denied any chance of survival.
His premature death prevented him from the realization of two
important projects that he had dreamt of:
to study the life and
customs of Albanian people in the Kosovo
region, which he had visited for several times with his
colleagues from Zagreb;
to describe hundreds
of Croatian Middle Age churches
using his camera (Gordan studied archaeology at the Faculty
of Philosophy in Zagreb).
Gordan
Lederer: Banijska ratna
praskozorja (1991)
Gordan
Lederer - in memoriam
Related web pages:
Sinisa Glavasevic, a young
newspaperman killed by Serbian cetniks in December1991 after the fall
of Vukovar, together with 260 wounded from the Vukovar hospital, dumped
in a massive grave
Pavo Urban, a young photographer killed
during savage Serbian and Montenegrin
shelling and bombing of the city of Dubrovnik on 6th December 1991
Žarko Kaić, distinguished Croatian
cameraman, assasinated on 28th August 1991 near the town of Osijek.
According to Croatian cameraman Petar
Malbaša, seventeen
Croatian reporters and cameramen have been assassinated during the
Serbian 1991-1995 aggression on Croatia.