Agony of Sarajevo siege
The Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada would like to commemorate the Siege of Sarajevo that lasted from April 6, 1992 to February 29, 1996, during the war of aggression on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. It is estimated that during the siege, of the more than 12,000 people killed and 50,000 wounded, 85 percent were civilians. The Siege of Sarajevo not only marked the start of the war of aggression, but also the beginning of genocide and ethnic cleansing throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Sarajevo under siege, in the period between 1992 and 1996, the individuals – civilians and civilian population and civilian objects protected by international humanitarian law were subjected to numerous forms of crimes against humanity and international law, and the gravest crimes of relevance for the international community as a whole, of versatile and different features – elements and characteristics, contents and form, committed in various ways, in the same or different areas at the same or at different times, directly or indirectly or in other ways.
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