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Sarajevo endured the suffocation of siege for for three and a half years, punctuated by daily shelling and fatalities. The signing of the Dayton Agreement ended the war in December 1995 and on 29 February 1996 the Bosnian government officially declared the siege over.
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Feb 9, 2018 · The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was the site of the most prominent siege of the Balkan wars that attended Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the early 1990s. On April 6, 1992, Serb forces began shelling the city from hillside positions and occupied several neighborhoods.
Apr 3, 2012 · The siege brought enormous suffering and misery to some 400,000 inhabitants of the Bosnian capital at the time. Constantly shelled and sniped, people were cut off from food, medicine, water and electricity. Thousands of civilians were killed and wounded.
May 25, 2024 · Over the next 44 months, Serb forces subjected Sarajevo to a constant barrage of shelling and sniper fire in a campaign of terror against the civilian population. An estimated 329 shell impacts struck the city per day in 1992, though on some days shelling exceeded 3,000 impacts.
A mortar attack at 12:20 on 5 February 1994 was a direct hit on an open air market in Sarajevo, the single most deadly attack after nearly 10 months of the siege.
May 1, 2021 · This city, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was besieged for almost four years and 11,000 people died in Sarajevo alone. Now the city is fighting a very different kind of war. In recent ...
May 3, 2020 · May 2-3, 1992 was a major watershed moment in Bosnia’s history as the heavily armed JNA forces from Serbia attempted to overtake Sarajevo’s presidency building and force the legal government ...
