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A British soldier, his face muffled against the cold, keeps watch with his assault rifle from the top of a FV432 armoured personnel carrier as it moves through the snow-covered landscape during an operation to escort urgently needed convoys of firewood into Sarajevo in early 1993.
The siege of Sarajevo (Bosnian: Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska.
- 2 April 1992 – 29 February 1996, (3 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
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"Sarajevo during the siege was like a giant experiment in human nature, in what happens to civilization when it is attacked from every side. Sarajevo was (and still is) a cosmopolitan ...
The Siege of Sarajevo: Tragic Story and Haunting Photos from The Bosnian War, 1992-1995. 4.4k Views. Sarajevo was besieged for the longest period in modern warfare history. It started on April 5, 1992, and ended on February 29, 1966. It lasted three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.
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Feb 25, 2021 · (AP Photo/David Brauchli) A wounded Serbian fighter is loaded into the back of a car in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza during fighting with the Muslim forces on May 14, 1992. At least three people were killed in the incident and three wounded when a mortar round exploded near a Yugoslav federal army armored personnel carrier.
Apr 5, 2022 · Kenneth Morrison. Sarajevo. BIRN. April 5, 2022 13:37. Paul Lowe’s exhibition of photographs of everyday life during the siege of Sarajevo shows how people in the Bosnian capital dealt with...
Feb 29, 2024 · Bosnian Serb Republic. Context: Bosnian War. Siege of Sarajevo, siege of the city Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996, during the Bosnian War, which followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia. It is the longest siege in modern European history through the 20th century, followed by the 872-day Nazi siege of ...
