Their superiors, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, were also convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Stanislav Galić and Dragomir Milošević were sentenced to life imprisonment and 29 years imprisonment respectively. Īfter the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted four Serb officials for numerous counts of crimes against humanity which they committed during the siege, including terrorism. Estimates of the population of Sarajevo after the siege ranged from 300,000 to 380,000. According to some estimates, the total population of the city proper prior to the siege was 435,000. The 1991 census indicates that before the siege, the city and its surrounding areas had a total population of 525,980. The ARBiH sustained 6,137 fatalities, while Bosnian Serb military casualties numbered 2,241 killed soldiers. The Bosnian government defence forces (ARBiH) inside the besieged city, approximately 70,000 troops, were poorly equipped and unable to break the siege.Ī total of 13,952 people were killed during the siege, including 5,434 civilians. From there they assaulted the city with artillery, tanks, and small arms. When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum, the Bosnian Serbs-whose strategic goal was to create a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska (RS) that would include Bosniak-majority areas -encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills. It lasted three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad, more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, a few months longer than the siege of Madrid, and the Siege of Deir ez-Zor and was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.
After it was initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 (1,425 days). The siege of Sarajevo ( Serbo-Croatian: Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War and the Bosnian genocide. Alija Izetbegović ( POW) (April–May 1992)Īrmy of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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