NUMEROUS DELEGATIONS LAID FLOWERS Honoring the victims at Markale, killed by Army of Republika Srpska shell

SARAJevo, (Patria) - Numerous delegations from social and political life and the diplomatic corps in Bosnia and Herzegovina laid flowers at the Markale memorial in Sarajevo, marking the 29th anniversary of one of the most horrific days for Sarajevo. 

On that day in 1994, 68 people were killed and 142 were lightly or seriously wounded in the Markale market by the explosion of a mortar shell fired from aggressor positions.

The Markale market and the covered City Market were shelled on two occasions. After February 1994, in a massacre at the very end of the war, on August 28, 1995, 43 civilians were killed and 84 were wounded near the Markale City Market.

During the siege of Sarajevo, 11,541 citizens of Sarajevo were killed, including 1,601 children, and more than 50,000 civilians were lightly or seriously wounded. It is estimated that around 500,000 projectiles were fired at the city during the siege, while it was recorded that on July 22, 1993, a record 3,777 projectiles were fired at the city. An average of 329 shells were fired at the city daily.

Killed at Markale 29 years ago were: Senad Arnautović, Ibrahim Babić, Mehmed Baručija, Ćamil Begić, Emir Begović, Vahida Bešić, Gordana Bogdanović, Vaskrsije Bojinović, Muhamed Borovina, Faruk Brkanić, Sakib Bulbul, Jelena Čavriz, Almasa Čehajić, Zlatko Čosić, Alija Čukojević, Verica Ćilimdžić, Smilja Delić, Ifet Drugovac, Dževad Durmo, Fatima Durmo, Kemal Džebo, Ismet Fazlić, Vejsil Ferhatbegović, Dževdet Fetahović, Muhamed Fetahović, Ahmed Fočo, Majda Ganović, Isma Gibović, Rasema Hasanović, Alija Hurko, Mirsada Ibrulj, Mustafa Imanić, Rasema Jažić, Razija Junuzović, Hasija Karavdić, Mladen Klačar, Marija Knežević, Selma Kovač, lbro Krajčin, Sejda Kunić, Jozo Kvesić, Numo Lakača, Ruža Malović, Jadranka Minić, Safer Musić, Nura Odžak, Mejra Orman, Hajrija Oručević, Seid Prozorac, Smajo Rahić, Igor Rehar, Rizvo Sabit, Zahida Sablja, Nedžad Salihović, Hajrija Smajić, Emina Srnja, Džemo Subašić, Šaćir Suljević, Hasib Šabanović, Ahmed Šehbajraktarević, Bejto Škrijelj, Junuz Švrakić, Pašaga Tihić, Munib Torlaković, Ruždija Trbić, Džemil Zečić, Muhamed Zubović and Senad Žunić.

The commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galić, was also convicted for their murders. The Hague Tribunal sentenced Dragomir Milošević to 29 years in prison in 2009 for terrorizing civilians in Sarajevo.

Radovan Karadžić, former president of Republika Srpska, was definitively sentenced to life imprisonment by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) in March 2019, among other things, for terrorizing and shelling the citizens of Sarajevo, which is also one of the points for which Ratko Mladić, commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), was sentenced to life imprisonment in June last year.

Domestic judiciary has not yet prosecuted all those responsible for this crime.