The Siege of Sarajevo was the siege of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. After being initially besieged by the force of the Yugoslavian National Army, Sarajevo was besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5th April 1992 to 29th February 1996 (1,425 days) during the Bosnia War. This siege lasted three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.
According to the United National resources, it was originally estimated that at least 200,000 people were killed and more than 2,000.000 displaced during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
During the siege of 44monts in Sarajevo, some 10,000 civilians were killed, mostly by snipers and mortars fired from the mountains surrounding the city. Estimated of the number of children killed vary. In the grand park of Sarajevo, Sarajevans were built the death tally sheet of 1,601 children’s names and planted 1,601 roses for them.
When Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independence was recognized by the United States and the EC on April 7, Bosnian Serbs paramilitary forces immediately began firing on Sarajevo, and the artillery bombardment of the city by Bosnian Serbs units of the Yugoslavian Army began soon thereafter. During April 1992 many of the towns in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina with large Bosnian populations, such as Zvornik, Foca, and Visegrad were attacked by a combination of Serbian paramilitary forces and Yugoslav army units. Most of the local Bosnian population was expelled from these areas.
