A ceremony was held on Victims of Fascism Street in the Otoka neighborhood of Sarajevo on Friday, marking the 30th anniversary of the deaths of nine people who were killed when three mortar shells were fired from positions held by the Bosnian Serb Army.
Five of the dead were children; 38 other people were also injured in the attack on November 10, 1993.
The commemoration was attended by representatives of Sarajevo Canton, City of Sarajevo, and the Novi Grad Municipality, as well as pupils from various local schools and kindergartens and representatives of war victims’ associations.
They were among more than 11,000 Sarajevans, including around 1,600 children, who were killed during the 44-month siege of the capital.
Wartime Bosnian Serb political and military leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, as well as the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galic, were sentenced to life imprisonment for waging a campaign of terror against Sarajevo’s civilian population through sniper and artillery attacks.
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