Sarajevo And Bosnia War
On 6 april serb forces began shelling sarajevo and in the next two days crossed the drina from serbia proper and besieged muslim majority zvornik višegrad and foča.
Sarajevo and bosnia war. All of bosnia was engulfed in war by mid april. The most common view is that the war started that day. 18 according to amnesty international the use of rape during times of war is not a by product of conflicts but a pre planned and deliberate military strategy. Bosnia herzegovina the siege of sarajevo archive 1993 twenty five years ago the bosnian capital sarajevo was subjected to daily shelling and sniper attacks from serb nationalist forces.
Bosnian war ethnically rooted war in bosnia and herzegovina that took place from 1992 to 1995. After years of bitter fighting between bosniaks bosnian muslims serbs and croats as well as the yugoslav army a nato imposed final cease fire was negotiated at dayton ohio u s in 1995. Rat u bosni i hercegovini рат у босни и херцеговини was an international armed conflict that took place in bosnia and herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war torn sarajevo neighborhood of grbavica in 1996 a site of rape camps during the bosnian war and subject of the award winning film grbavica.
The bosnian war was marked by widespread violence the destruction of towns and cities and ethnic cleansings committed predominantly by the serbs. Bosnia and herzegovina received international recognition on 6 april 1992.