33rd Anniversary of the Ferhadija Massacre: 26 Killed and 108 Wounded While Waiting in Line for Bread

(Patria) - On this day in 1992, members of the Army of Republika Srpska committed one of the most horrific crimes during the siege of Sarajevo - it was the massacre on Vase Miskina Street, today's Ferhadija.

Serbian forces fired three mortar shells from the direction of Borija, killing 26 and wounding 108 citizens of Sarajevo.

The day before the massacre, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev visited Sarajevo and, among other things, agreed on a ceasefire.

In accordance with this agreement, a ceasefire was supposed to come into effect on May 27, 1992, at 6:00 AM.

The citizens of Sarajevo were "encouraged" to stand in line for bread, which had been delivered to a shop on Vase Miskina Street around 9:00 AM, and dairy products were soon delivered nearby.

While the bread distribution was underway, at 9:55 AM, shells were fired at this location.

This was the first mass killing of civilians in besieged Sarajevo during the aggression from 1992 to 1995.

The massacre on Vase Miskina Street is one of 230 instances of mass civilian killings during the siege of Sarajevo. No one has been prosecuted for this crime.

Family members, survivors, and numerous delegations will lay flowers at the site of the massacre today and pay tribute to all those killed.

33 years ago, the following were killed: Nedžad Abdija, Ismet Ašćerić, Ruždija Bektešević, Snježana Biloš, Predrag Bogdanović, Vladimir Bogunović, Vasva Čengić, Gordana Čeklić, Mirsad Fazlagić, Emina Karamustafić, Mediha Omerović, Bahrija Pilav, Mila Ruždić, Mile Ružić, Hatidža Salić, Galib Sinotić, Abdulah Sarajlić, Sulejman Sarajlić, Sreten Stamenović, Srećko Šiklić, Božica Trajeri-Pataki, Vlatko Tanacković, Srećko Tanasković, Tamara Vejzagić-Kostić, Jusuf Vladović, and Izudin Zukić.