Siege of Sarajevo - in pictures

  • Bosnians run for shelter across a street to avoid shelling from Serbs, in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, on July 12, 1992. Pascal Guyot/AFP
    Bosnians run for shelter across a street to avoid shelling from Serbs, in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, on July 12, 1992. Pascal Guyot/AFP
  • A Bosnian special forces soldier returns fire on April 6, 1992 in downtown Sarajevo, as he and civilians come under fire from Serbian snipers. The Serb extremists were shooting from the roof of a hotel at a peace demonstration of some of 30,000 people as fighting between Bosnian and Serb fighters escalated in the capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Mike Persson/AFP
    A Bosnian special forces soldier returns fire on April 6, 1992 in downtown Sarajevo, as he and civilians come under fire from Serbian snipers. The Serb extremists were shooting from the roof of a hotel at a peace demonstration of some of 30,000 people as fighting between Bosnian and Serb fighters escalated in the capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Mike Persson/AFP
  • Houses in the suburbs of Sarajevo on June 6, 1992, hit by heavy shelling by Serbian forces perched on the hills around Sarajevo. Georges Gobet/AFP
    Houses in the suburbs of Sarajevo on June 6, 1992, hit by heavy shelling by Serbian forces perched on the hills around Sarajevo. Georges Gobet/AFP
  • A man at his son's grave in Bosnia, on October 7, 1992. Hansi Krauss/AP
    A man at his son's grave in Bosnia, on October 7, 1992. Hansi Krauss/AP
  • A resident of Sarajevo runs for cover crossing a street to avoid snipers who are posted in evacuated houses in the Bosnian Capital, on May 31, 1992. Georges Gobet/AFP
    A resident of Sarajevo runs for cover crossing a street to avoid snipers who are posted in evacuated houses in the Bosnian Capital, on May 31, 1992. Georges Gobet/AFP
  • A Serb soldier leaving the Sarajevo airport on June 29, 1992 after an agreement was reached to hand the airport over to the United Nations peace-keeping forces to allow relief flights carrying humanitarian aid for residents of the besieged city to enter. Christophe Simon/AFP
    A Serb soldier leaving the Sarajevo airport on June 29, 1992 after an agreement was reached to hand the airport over to the United Nations peace-keeping forces to allow relief flights carrying humanitarian aid for residents of the besieged city to enter. Christophe Simon/AFP