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The Siege of Sarajevo, carried out by Bosnian Serb forces, lasted from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996, making it the longest siege in modern European history.
The Siege of Sarajevo (Serbo-Croatian: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo, the UN team in Bosnia and Herzegovina reiterated the importance on Wednesday of pursuing justice and reparation for victims, survivors and their family...
At the end of the 20 th century, during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the city of Sarajevo survived the longest siege in human history. On 5 April 1992, Sarajevo, the capital of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was attacked. On 2 May 1992, the city was completely blockaded.
Sarajevo was under siege from Serbian forces for almost four years, the longest blockade of any capital city in modern warfare. More than 11,000 lives were lost.
Twenty years ago today, Serb militants opened fire on thousands of peace demonstrators in Sarajevo, the Muslim-led capitol city of the newly independent state of Bosnia-Hercegovina. The attack set off what would become the longest siege of a capitol city in modern warfare – lasting from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996.