Milan prosecutors have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army to go to Sarajevo to kill civilians during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s. Write about this Guardian.
More than 10,000 people died in Sarajevo from continuous shelling and sniper fire from 1992 to 1996 in the longest siege in modern history after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.
Snipers are perhaps the most terrifying element of life in besieged Sarajevo, as they shoot indiscriminately at people in the streets, including children, as if it were a video game or a hunting trip.
The massacre is believed to have involved groups of Italians and other nationalities, so-called “traveling snipers,” who paid large sums of money to soldiers in the army of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who was convicted in 2016 of genocide and other crimes against humanity, to be transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo, where they could shoot at the population for their own pleasure. me.
The Bosnian War (1992-1995) became one of the bloodiest conflicts after the collapse of Yugoslavia. The central and most tragic episode of that war was the siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which lasted from April 1992 to February 1996 – the longest siege of a city in modern history.
