Siege of Sarajevo

Since we are reading about the war between the Serbs and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I did some research into the war and the siege of Sarajevo. The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the 20th century. Approximately 10,000 died or disappeared, and approximately 56,000 people were wounded. By 1995, the city's poplulation was merely sixty-four percent of its original size.
After the death of Marshal Tito, democracies were established for Yugoslav peoples, leading to the break-up of the country. Soon after Bosnia and Herzegovina acquired independence from Serbia in 1992, Serbs began fighting their government. It was only in 1994, after sixty-eight civilians were killed and 200 were wounded in one sitting that the UN threatened the Serbs with air strikes if they did not withdraw their weaponry from beyond a certain line, at which point the Serbs agreed. The fighting had reached its climax, and this signaled that the end of the siege was not far.