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The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995.

This archive gathers the stories of people, events, military units and places of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – a testimony to the suffering of the Bosniak people and to the genocide committed against them, preserved for future generations.

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Markale

August 28, 1995

Account of an event · August 28, 1995

Markale, 28 August 1995: Five Shells and 43 Killed at the Entrance to the City Market

On Monday, 28 August 1995, at about 11 a.m., five mortar shells fell near the Markale market in Sarajevo. One 120 mm shell landed in front of the main entrance to the City Market in Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street, killing 43 people and wounding dozens. Two days later NATO launched the air operation Deliberate Force against VRS targets. Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić were later convicted by final judgment and sentenced to life imprisonment, among other things for terrorising the civilian population of Sarajevo.

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Markale

Account of an event · February 5, 1994

Markale, 5 February 1994: A Single Shell on the Sarajevo Market

On Saturday, 5 February 1994, between 12:10 and 12:20, a 120 mm mortar shell fell on the Markale market in the centre of besieged Sarajevo. According to memorial sources, 68 people were killed and 144 wounded. The ICTY established that the shell was deliberately fired from territory under the control of the Sarajevsko-romanijski korpus of the VRS, and Stanislav Galić, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić have been sentenced by final judgments to life imprisonment.

Omarska

Biography · August 5, 1992

Dr. Eso Sadiković – a Prijedor physician killed after the Omarska camp

Dr. Esad Eso Sadiković, a respected Prijedor otorhinolaryngologist and United Nations expert, was arrested after the SDS seized power in Prijedor in 1992 and was interned in the Omarska camp, where he helped wounded and exhausted detainees. On the night of 5–6 August 1992 he was taken out of the camp and killed above the Hrastova glavica pit. His remains were buried in Prijedor on 29 July 2007. His fate is part of the wider killing of Prijedor physicians and intellectuals.

Nevesinje

Personal testimony · 1992

Only She Survived: The Testimony of a Young Mother from Presjeka near Nevesinje, 1992

In June 1992, a young mother was visiting her mother-in-law in the village of Presjeka near Nevesinje, together with her husband and two small children, when the shelling began. According to her testimony, Serb soldiers captured the refugees, separated the men, and locked the women and children in a heating plant; she survived the detention and sexual violence. According to her, her husband, son and daughter were killed in 1992 and never returned.

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Account of an event · Mostar · June 13, 1992 – June 14, 1992

Uborak and Sutina: The Shooting of 114 Civilians from Mostar in June 1992

On the night of 13 to 14 June 1992, as Serb forces were withdrawing from Mostar, Bosniak and Croat civilians who had been taken from their homes and shelters were killed. According to the association of victims' families and the media, 114 bodies were exhumed, 88 at the Uborak city landfill and 26 near the Sutina cemetery, while the ICTY judicially established that at least 40 and at least seven people were killed, respectively. More than three decades later, no one has been indicted or convicted for these crimes.

Account of an event · Kljuna · June 1992 · BS

Šesnaest starih koji nisu mogli preći planinu – Kljuna i Presjeka, Nevesinje, juni 1992.

U junu 1992. srpske snage napadale su bošnjačka sela u općini Nevesinje u istočnoj Hercegovini, među njima Kljunu i susjednu Presjeku. Prema utvrđenim činjenicama MKSJ-a, u drugoj polovini juna 1992. ubijeno je šesnaest starih Bošnjaka koji su pokušavali pobjeći. Istražitelj nestalih osoba Amor Mašović ispričao je kako su stari mještani Kljune, koji nisu mogli preći planinu, ostali u improvizovanom logoru iza nje i tamo ubijeni.