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.