Markale massacres

Families of the dead, survivors of the shelling, Bosnian politicians and representatives of war victims' associations laid wreaths on Friday at the site of the massacre at the Markale marketplace to mark its 27th anniversary.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army's Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galic, have both been convicted by the Hague Tribunal of having command responsibility for the attack, but none of the direct perpetrators of the shelling have faced justice yet.

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Witness statement by Rialda Musaefendic. Photo: Screenshot

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Witness statement by Rialda Musaefendic. Photo: Screenshot

Twenty-eight of her colleagues were injured in the shelling of the RTV building, and one lost his life.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Thursday that it has rejected a request to introduce new evidence about the Srebrenica massacres and the wartime siege of Sarajevo at appeal hearings in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.

Families of victims, Bosnian politicians and ordinary Sarajevans gathered to lay flowers and pay tributes on Wednesday at the site of the Markale market shelling on the 26th anniversary of the deadly attack during the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces.

The 24th anniversary of the massacre at the Trznica Markale market in Sarajevo was marked on Wednesday with a minute's silence and the reading of the names of the 43 Sarajevo residents who were killed there on August 28, 1995.

Bosnian Serb lawmakers have thrown out a parliamentary committee report casting doubt on the official explanation for the 'accidental' death in March of a 21-year-old man who protesters say was murdered.

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial, the defence said claims that Bosnian Serb forces under his command indiscriminately shelled Sarajevo and sniped at civilians were a myth.

Experts engaged by the Bosnian Serb authorities will stage reconstructions of the deadly blasts at Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace in 1994 and 1995 and an attack on a bread queue in 1992.

Testifying for Ratko Mladic, ballistic expert Zorica Subotic said that the killings in the Markale market in 1994 were not caused by a mortar missile but by a stationary explosive.