ABSTRACT
The siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb and Serbian militias that completely blockaded and encircled the city lasted 1,395 days (from May 2, 1992 to February 26, 1996), killed 11,000 civilians, including 1,600 children, and damaged or destroyed 60 percent of the city’s buildings. Today, the political “solution” and the “peace” have an imposed feeling. The Dayton accord of 1995 institutionalized a de facto partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The autonomous Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska created by Dayton comprises 49 percent of the country’s territory and lies immediately to the east of the city, a reward for its ruthless fighting machine. The “peace” now in Sarajevo approximates what one finds when visiting a cemetery.
