Sarajevo commemorates children killed during the 1992-1995 siege

According to official data, 1.601 children were killed during the four years of the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995).

Under international and local court decisions, at least 53 of them were killed by snipers, while more than 14,000 were injured.

For crimes against children committed during the siege, no one has so far been held accountable.

The Sarajevo Canton government in 2019 has decided that May 5th will be marked as Sarajevo Children's Day of Memory.

The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, since February 2020, is collecting personal items of children killed during the siege of Sarajevo, which have been exposed under the memorial installation “White Room”.

Sarajevo siege

Terror towards Sarajevo citizens lasted 1,425 days.

Under the Court's rulings in The Hague, attacks on civilians from the positions of the Republika Srpska Army took place everywhere at any time of day or night.

For the siege of Sarajevo, the International Court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague has sentenced Stanislav Gallicin to life imprisonment, while Dragomir Milosevic has been sentenced to 29 years in prison.

Both were commanders of the Sarajevo-Romanian Corps, who has kept the town under siege for 44 months.

Some parts of the eternal sentences of Radovan Karadzic, former president of the Republika Srpska, and Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Republika Srpska Army, are also linked to the terrorisation of Sarajevo's civilian population.

At the local level, 12 people have been followed for crimes in the besieged parts of the city so far.

Former president of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic has also been indicted before The Hague Tribunal, but he died during the process in March 2006, and the trial has been interrupted.

Bilana Plavsic, former president of Republika Srpska, has pleaded guilty to involvement in crimes in Sarajevo and has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by The Hague tribunal. /rel/