Young and inexperienced fighters oppose then a much stronger aggressor and won. The resistance of the members of the Territorial Defense of the Republic of BiH The Agressor was stopped in the center of Sarajevo, the BiH Presidency Building was defended and the division of the capital was defended.
Battle for the Presidency
It was the first, big battle for Sarajevo and BiH. On that day the Special Unit of the then JNA and paramilitary formations of the SDS tried to take the BIH Presidency building, and the fiercest struggle was taken 150 meters away, on the Skender. About 13 hours of JNA’s tanks set out towards the buildings of the Presidency and the Assembly of the City of Sarajevo.
The goal was to take power and eliminate the legitimate selected management then the already internationally recognized Republic of BiH. While the town of Gorio is under heavy shelling, between buildings were led by street struggles around the former House of the JNA, the National Theater and the Vrbanja Bridge.
Although Sarajevo from 5. April 1992. year was exposed to daily shelling, and its inhabitants of the ruthless sniper fire, 2. May marked one new stage of the war – then became the city under siege a material far more superior enemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blvlijpvksq
A photograph of the inflammatory tram and desktops leading to Skenderija via the Bridge on Miljacki, as well as the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the other side, recorded in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2. May 1992, visited the world. Along with her and the news in almost all the world media that day 26 years ago, as the day after that, 3. May 1992, it was that Sarajevo did not fall.
Izetbegović’s abduction
On that day, on the arodrome in Sarajevo, while returning from peace negotiations in Lisbon, members of the then JNA captured Presidency of RBiH Ali Izetbegović. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpmuuybmqr8
He was then driven in Lukavica, in Sarajevo, the JNA stronghold, from where by the telephone reported to the program of the then TV Sarajevo, in the central diary led by Senad Hadžifejzović. Negotiations on Izetbegović’s release lasted next night and day … was released in exchange for the exit of the JNA column from the barracks located in the city itself.
On the same day, he was on fire and completely burned off the post office in the center of Sarajevo, where the Serbian Main Lines in the Sarajevo Municipalities Center and the Old Town, whose inhabitants were without telephone lines in their homes. It was an introduction to the weeps of the most representative and taller Sarajevo facilities, which were burned throughout May and in the months, including the Olympic Hall, the Hall of the National and University Library “, the” Oslobođenje “maternity”, Hotel “Europe” …
An aggressor attack thwarted
The planes of the then JNA in low summer 2. Maja fitted Sarajevo. For the first time after the Second World War, Siren heard a siren that day that signifies an air threat. But the aggressor attack is thwarted. BiH’s President Building is not occupied, and the city was not cut half, as originally planned, but was completely blocked.
Assembly of Sarajevo and a building in which the seat of the State Vrh of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the 1st year of Europe and recognized by the European Community, as well as members of the Territorial Defense of RBiH, Green Berets, and numerous other citizens that almost naked go to defense of their own threshold, The city and coexistence in the city that was a symbol of the joint life of people of different nations and worldviews.
Siege
Recall, the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina has made a decision to withdraw the JNA units from the territory of the Republic of BiH, due to the fact that the Republic of BiH is a sovereign state and in the meantime, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was declared. The command of the second military fields of the JNA, which was within jurisdiction of the 30. The Staff Center of the Yugoslav Army General Staff, was later just renamed the RS Army. Proof for this is the decision on the formation of the Army of Republika Srpska to 16. Headquarters of the Assembly of the Self-Provided Serb Republic of BiH, when the war criminal Ratko Mladic takes command of this army.
On Sarajevo, four war years fell by the branches of that army, and to his naked citizens shot from a sniper from the surrounding hills. The citizens of Sarajevo are killed from all weapons, but also tortured with long interruptions in drinking water supply, electricity and natural gas, starved in an illicit to the entry of humanitarian convoys in the city …
The end of the war was not welcomed by the 1,601 Sarajevo child. During the siege, which lasted 1,460 days, between 11,541 citizens of Sarajevo were killed, and about 50,000 were injured among other than other difficult disabled.
Sarajevo cemetery – Kovači, Leo, Stadium, Bare … Witness the stracles of destruction in the inflated modern siege of the city, which lasted three times longer than the siege of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
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