Sarajevo

Markale massacre commemorated

05.02.2013 u 14:51

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The 19th anniversary of Markale massacre was commemorated in Sarajevo on Tuesday.

The Markale massacres were two bomb attacks carried out by the Army of the Republika Srpska targeting civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s Bosnian War. They occurred at the Markale (marketplace) located in the historic core of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The first happened on 5 February 1994, 68 people were killed and 144 more were wounded. The second occurred on 28 August 28 1995 when five mortar shells killed 43 people and wounded another 75. This latter attack was the stated reason for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces that would eventually lead to the Dayton Peace Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Bosnian Serb army general Stanislav Galic guilty of the Markale massacre and sentenced him to life in prison.