Episode 102: Sarajevo Siege – How Perpetrators of Deadly Attacks Remain Unprosecuted
Twenty-seven years since the siege of Sarajevo began, a handful of commanders have been tried, but Bosnian prosecutors have not yet filed any indictments against direct perpetrators of sniping and shelling attacks on civilians.
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During the three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo, civilians were attacked with snipers’ bullets and artillery projectiles while buying food at markets, doing their gardening or cleaning the streets. They were shot at while attending funerals and while riding in buses, trams and ambulances or on bicycles.
The attacks were mainly conducted during the day. They were not a response to any military threats.
These conclusions were presented by Hague Tribunal presiding judge Alphons Orie when pronouncing Stanislav Galic guilty of a campaign of terror against the civilian population of Sarajevo during his term as commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps between 1992 and 1994.
