19925 April 1992–29 February 1996 · Sarajevo

Siege of Sarajevo

The Holiday Inn on Zmaja od Bosne avenue, once known as Sniper Alley, in Sarajevo — Photo: Fanny Schertzer. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

During the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb forces surrounded Sarajevo and shelled and sniped at the city from the hills for almost four years, the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare. More than 11,000 people were killed. Residents survived on aid flown into the airport and supplies carried through a tunnel dug beneath it.

Military & Battlefields
Civil Rights & Human Rights
Social History
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sites

Site 1: Sarajevo War Tunnel Museum, ButmirThe house and a surviving section of the tunnel under the airport.Map ↗
Site 2: Sniper Alley and the Holiday InnMain avenue exposed to snipers, and the hotel used by war reporters.Map ↗