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April 5, 2022 marks 30 years since the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo by Serbian army forces. On this day, in 1992, were recorded the first victims of Serbian snipers: Suada Dillberovic and Olga Suçi,, killed on a bridge in the city, which today bears their name.
In May last year, Bosnian war prosecutors launched an investigation following the release of a video showing Bosnian Serb snipers targeting victims. Footage posted by French journalist Philippe Buffon showed one of them hitting and then bragging that he had “shot someone in the head”.
The siege of Sarajevo was one of the longest in the history of modern warfare and the longest of a capital city ever. It lasted until February 29, 1996, exactly 1,460 days. During the siege, Sarajevo was almost completely cut off from the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with shortages of food, electricity, gas, medicine and water.
During that period, hundreds of thousands of grenades fell on the city, killing more than 11,500 people, including about 1,600 children. The then leader of the Serbian army, Ratko Mladic, gave the order to shoot at all non-Serb civilian targets in Sarajevo. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) later sentenced him to life in prison on charges including terrorizing civilians in Sarajevo.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has also been convicted on similar charges. The Hague Tribunal has convicted three Serb commanders for the siege of Sarajevo: Stanislav Gallic, Dragomir Milosevic and Momcilo Perisic.
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