The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People’s Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996 during the Bosnian Genocide. It is estimated that Serb forces killed nearly 10,000 people — mostly Bosniaks, but also Serbs and other residents of the besieged Sarajevo — including over 1,500 children. An additional 56,000 people were wounded, including nearly 15,000 children.
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| Bosniak girl cries after Serbs killed and injured several of her relatives in the attack on Sarajevo (Brauchli David, April 1, 1995.) |
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| The corpse of a woman lies in the road known as Sniper Alley next to a United Nations vehicle. Since April 1992, Sarajevo was surrounded by the Yugoslav National Army and Serb militias. The siege of Sarajevo lasted until October 1995. (Patrick Chauvel, January 20, 1993.) |
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Corpse of a woman lies in the road next to a United Nations medical vehicle. The woman was a victim of the siege of Sarajevo. (Antoine Gyori, 20 January 1993.)
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| A woman stands near the area of Sarajevo that was used for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games which now holds the graves of thousands of victims of the Siege of Sarajevo. (Chris Rainier, ca. 1993-1994) |
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| A Sarajevo civilian lies dead, killed by Serbian snipers. Serbian army terrorized civilians in the besieged Sarajevo on a daily basis. (Patrick Durand, March 08, 1993.) |
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| Blood in Sarajevo, Serb snipers kill civilians on a daily basis (Brauchli David, April 1, 1995.) |
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| Injured Bosniak woman is rushed to hospital after Serbian shelling of Sarajevo (Brauchli David, April 1, 1995.) |
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| Wounded elderly Bosniak civilian is rushed to hospital after Serbian shelling of Sarajevo (Brauchli David, April 1, 1995.) |
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| Wounded Bosniak boy in Sarajevo's Kosevo Hospital (Jon Jones, August 12, 1993.) |
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| Wounded Bosniak boy in Sarajevo's Kosevo Hospital (Jon Jones, August 12, 1993.) |
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| Mother and a child hild near bombed-out building in the besieged Sarajevo. (David Turnley, 1992) |
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| An injured woman is led from an apartment building by a Bosnian Army soldier after several artillery shells crashed into a residential area in Sarajevo in this May 26, 1995 file photo. (Chris Helgren) |
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| A gravedigger buries the bodies of Bosniak civilians killed during the siege of Sarajevo. (Antoine Gyori, January 28, 1993.) |
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| A young girl holds tight to her teddy bear during the Serbian terrorist bombing of the besieged Sarajevo (Antoine Gyori, February 02, 1993.) |
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| Wounded Bosniak girl lies in her hospital bed during the Siege of Sarajevo. (Antoine Gyori, July 04, 1992.) |
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| Injured Bosniak girl lies in her hospital bed during the Siege of Sarajevo. (Antoine Gyori, July 04, 1992.) |
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| Murdered residents of the besieged Sarajevo wait to be transfered in a morgue. Serb snipers and artillery killed Sarajevo civilians on a daily basis (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Injured civilian waits for doctors to attend him. Serbian snipers and artillery injured or killed Sarajevo civilians on a daily basis during the siege of Sarajevo (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Man carries a wounded boy to hospital after Serbian attack on the besieged Sarajevo. (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Hospital staff attends injured civilian after Serbs bombed besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Bosnian Muslim clerics pray for innocent Bosniak civilian victims killed by Serbs during the siege of Sarajevo. (Jon Jones, 1 June 1992.) |
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| Sarajevo burning after Serbian army bombarded the besieged capital, killing women, children and elderly civilians on a daily basis. (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Woman attends one of killed residents of Sarajevo. Serbian snipers and artillery killed residents of the besieged Sarajevo on a daily basis. (Jon Jones, June 01, 1992.) |
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| Serbian attack on Sarajevo: Markale Market Massacre killed at least 68 civilians and wounded hundreds. (Patrick Chauve, February 05, 1994.) |
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| Serbian attack on Sarajevo: Markale Market Massacre killed at least 68 civilians and wounded hundreds. (Patrick Chauve, February 05, 1994.) |
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| Serbian attack on Sarajevo: Markale Market Massacre killed at least 68 civilians and wounded hundreds. (Patrick Chauve, February 05, 1994.) |
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| Serbian attack on Sarajevo: Markale Market Massacre killed at least 68 civilians and wounded hundreds. (Patrick Chauve, February 05, 1994.) |
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| A wounded man undergoes an emergency operation after suffering an intestinal wound from a Serbian grenade attack during the shelling of Sarajevo. The hospital is short of antibiotics, respirators, anesthetics, oxygen, and antidotes to bring patients out of anesthesia. (David Turnley, 1992.) |
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| Bosniak civilians killed by Serb snipers and artillery during the siege of Sarajevo in a local morgue (Chris Rainier, 1994.) |
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| Six-month-old Bosniak baby boy Keric Kemal is being treated at Sarajevo's children's hospital after being shot by a Serbian sniper in the besieged Sarajevo. (David Turnley, 1992.) |
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| A man in Sarajevo washes blood off of stretchers used to carry the dead and wounded civilians killed by Serb terrorists around Sarajevo. Serb army killed women, children and elderly civilians in the besieged Sarajevo on a daily basis.(Patrick Robert, 1994.) |
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| A dead elderly Bosniak civilian lies on the floor of a Sarajevo hospital after a Serbian mortar attack on a crowd of people on the first day of a cease-fire. The man lies next to the two loaves of bread that he had bought just before the attack. (David Turnley, July 20, 1992.) |
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| The bodies Sarajevo civilians killed by Serbs in Sarajevo during the siege of the Bosnian capital. (Patrick Robert, June 01, 1993.) |
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| The bodies of victims of the Sarajevo siege. Serbian army stationed in the mountains around Sarajevo terrorized and killed thousands of civilians - elderly men, women, children - and defenders of the Olympic city of Sarajevo. (Patrick Robert, June 01, 1993.) |
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| Injured Bosniak woman in a hospital bed. Thousands of residents of Sarajevo were terrorized and killed by Serb snipers and artillery during the siege of Sarajevo. (David Turnley, 1992.) |
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| The bodies of a man and woman lie along the street in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Alipasino Polje after they were hit by Serbian grenade shrapnel in this 1992 file photo. Genocide, siege and massacre are for many people in Bosnia more than just words on Radovan Karadzic's indictment. They represent years of suffering, dead friends and nightmares that will always haunt them. (Danilo Krstanovic) |
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| Body of 7-year-old Bosniak boy NERMIN DIVOVIC. He was killed by Serb sniper in Sarajevo on 18 November 1994. He was one of more than 1,000 innocent Bosnian Muslim children and babies killed by bloodthirsty Serbs during the siege of Sarajevo. Photographer: Enric Marti. |
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| Bodies of Bosniak children in Sarajevo morgue killed by Serb snipers during the siege of Sarajevo - the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. The siege lasted from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996. Credits: Maud S. Beelman, AP foreign correspondent. |
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| Little Bosnian Muslim baby girl Nalena Skorupan was killed by Serbs during the siege of Sarajevo on 7 January 1994. Photographer: Gervasio Sánchez. |
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| Children surround Michael Jackson in New York during an event sponsored by his Heal the World Foundation in association with Americares. At this event, 47 tons of winter relief supplies were airlifted to the children of Sarajevo. (Najlah Feanny, November 24, 1992.) |
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