Today marks the 28th anniversary of the Markale massacre in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, when many citizens, relatives, friends and officials will remember the innocent citizens who were killed on this day in 1995 at the entrance to the Markale City Market.
In the massacre at the Markale market on August 28, 1995, 43 Sarajevo citizens were killed, and 84 were lightly and seriously wounded.
A mortar shell fired from the direction of Trebević Mountain exploded near the northern entrance to Sarajevo’s City Market. On this day 28 years ago today, Serbian military, police and paramilitary formations committed another in a series of crimes in the war waged in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 until the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995.
In the massacre that took place at the northern entrance to Sarajevo’s City Market on August 28, 1995, right before the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the following people were killed: Omer Ajanović, Hidajet Alić, Salko Alić, Zeno Bašević, Husein Baktašević, Sevda Brkan-Kruščica, Vera Brutus-Đukić, Halida Cepić, Paša Crnčalo, Mejra Cocalić, Razija Čolić, Esad Čoranbegić, Dario Dlouhi, Salko Duraković, Alija Dževlan, Najla Fazlić, Rijad Garbo, Ibrahim Hajvaz, Meho Herceglić, Jasmina Hodžić, Hajrudin Hozo, Jusuf Hašimbegović, Adnan Ibrahimagić, Ilija Karanović, Mesudija Kerović, Vehid Komar, Muhamed Kukić, Mirsad Kovačević, Hasim Kurtović, Ismet Klarić, Masija Lončar, Osman Mahmutović, Senad Muratović, Goran Poturković, Blaženka Smoljan, Hamid Smajlhodžić, Hajro Šatrović, Samir Topuzović, Hamza Tunović , Ajdin Vukotić, Sabaheta Vukotić, Meho Zećo and Narima Žiga.
A year and a half earlier, on February 5, 1994, a shell also fell on Markale from Serbian positions around the then besieged Sarajevo, killing 68 and injuring 144 people.
