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[ 0 => '{{Infobox civilian attack', 1 => '| title = 30 August 1992 Sarajevo shelling', 2 => '| location = Western edge of Sarajevo', 3 => '| date = 30 August 1992', 4 => '| image = Evstafiev-bosnia-SARAJEVO.jpg', 5 => '| caption = Victim of the attack being brought to a hospital', 6 => '| coordinates = {{coord|43.8476|N|18.3564|E|type:city|display=inline|name=Sarajevo}}', 7 => '}}', 8 => '', 9 => 'On 30 August 1992, an [[howitzer]] shell crashed onto a crowded [[Sarajevo]] Market on the western edge of Sarajevo.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=31 August 1992 |title=Shell Kills 15 in Sarajevo Marketplace : Balkans: Dozens are wounded in one of the bloodiest attacks of the Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital. |pages=1 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-31-mn-5905-story.html#:~:text=A%20howitzer%20shell%20crashed%20into%20a%20crowded%20marketplace,bodies%20into%20pickup%20trucks%20parked%20on%20bloodstained%20ground.?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=DC0BB06A869446D8919CAF5EDA202035}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Sudetic |first=Chuck |date=31 August 1992 |title=15 Killed by Artillery Shell In a Busy Sarajevo Market |pages=6 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/31/world/15-killed-by-artillery-shell-in-a-busy-sarajevo-market.html#:~:text=An%20artillery%20shell%20crashed%20and%20exploded%20in%20a,were%20ending%20a%20siege%20of%20another%20Bosnian%20town.?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=EAB5E67BC09D4E0BA3CC84319B5F3127}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |orig-date=31 August 1992 |title=Shelling at marketplace kills 15, injures dozens in Sarajevo |page=6 |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1992/08/31/shelling-at-marketplace-kills-15-injures-dozens-in-sarajevo/?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=5BEB1BC52ED942AA85B83D7E5C8C8386}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=30 August 1992 |title=15 CIVILIANS KILLED IN SARAJEVO MARKET |page=1 |work=[[News & Record]] |url=https://greensboro.com/15-civilians-killed-in-sarajevo-market/article_53ca4707-a107-5eda-9050-772e63da90a5.html?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=DD87C4C8A9614002883C23EBBF758417}}</ref> The resulting explosion killed 15 people.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Rescue workers nearby slung bodies into pickup trucks parked on bloodstained ground.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /> Survivors screamed for family and friends as they wandered around market stalls strewn with limbs and other human remains.<ref name=":3" /> 35-100 people were reported wounded in the blast.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The shelling caused the [[European Community]] to impose [[Trade Sanctions|trade sanctions]] on [[Serbia and Montenegro|Serbia]], which it accused of supporting [[Serbs]] fighting to [[Republika Srpska (1992–1995)|carve their own state]] from part of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]].<ref name=":0" /> [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 757|U.N. sanctions on Serbia-dominated Yugoslavia]] followed on May 30.<ref name=":0" /> ', 10 => '', 11 => '[[U.N.]] spokesman [[Fred Eckhard (U.N. spokesman)|Fred Eckhard]] was nearby when the attack happended and he said:<ref name=":3" />', 12 => '', 13 => '{{quote|“For a single shot to land so precisely as it did in the middle of that marketplace, it appears to have been intentionally targeted in that way at these innocent civilians[...]It would be nice if we could turn ourselves into a police force and run up into the hills and grab those people and arrest them and bring them to justice[...]Each side has promised they would stop the fighting. But it just doesn’t stop}}', 14 => '', 15 => 'Eckhard suggested the [[artillery]] round was fired from Serbian positions.<ref name=":3" />', 16 => '', 17 => '== Backround ==', 18 => '{{Main|Siege of Sarajevo}}', 19 => '', 20 => 'On 2 March, [[Serb paramilitaries]] set up barricades and positioned [[Sniper|snipers]] near Sarajevo's parliament building, but their ''[[coup d'état]]'' was thwarted by thousands of Sarajevo citizens who took to the streets and placed themselves in front of the snipers.<ref name="Malcolm">{{cite book |last=Malcolm |first=Noel |title=Bosnia: A Short History |publisher=New York University Press |year=1996 |isbn=0-8147-5561-5 |page=231}}</ref> Armed Bosniaks known as "[[Green Berets (Bosnian paramilitary)|Green Berets]]" also erected barricades in and around Sarajevo. More barricades appeared near [[Banja Luka]], and a motorist was killed by armed Serbs in [[Doboj]]. By the end of the day, twelve people had been killed in the fighting.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nltdtAo38K0C&pg=PA19 |title=War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume 1 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |year=1992 |isbn=978-1-56432-083-4 |pages=18–19}}</ref> ', 21 => '', 22 => 'On 2 May 1992, Bosnian Serb forces established a total blockade of the city. They blocked the major access roads, cutting supplies of food and medicine, and also cut off the city's utilities (e.g., water, electricity and heating). Although they possessed superior weaponry, they were greatly outnumbered by ARBiH soldiers who were defending the city. Bosnia and Herzegovina received international recognition on 6 April 1992.{{sfn|Bose|2009|p=124}} The most common view is that the war started that day.<ref>{{harvnb|Mulaj|2008|p=53}}, {{harvnb|Hammond|2007|p=51}}</ref>', 23 => '', 24 => 'On 3 May 1992, members of the ARBiH attacked a convoy of withdrawing JNA soldiers on [[1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo|Dobrovoljačka Street]] in Sarajevo.<ref name="b92">{{cite web |date=5 March 2011 |title=Sarajevo ogorčeno zbog Divjaka |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2011&mm=03&dd=05&nav_category=64&nav_id=497006 |access-date=7 March 2011 |publisher=B92}}</ref> The attack is thought to have been in retaliation for the arrest of Izetbegović, who was detained at Sarajevo Airport by Yugoslav police the previous day.<ref>{{cite news |author=John F. Burns |date=3 May 1992 |title=Sarajevo's Center Erupts in War, Weakening Yugoslav Truce Effort |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/03/world/sarajevo-s-center-erupts-in-war-weakening-yugoslav-truce-effort.html?scp=1&sq=sarajevo%20may%203%201992&st=cse |access-date=7 March 2011}}</ref> The attack started with the convoy being separated when a car was driven into it. Then sporadic and disorganized fighting took place for several minutes in and around the convoy. 6–42 soldiers were killed in the incident.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 May 2010 |title=О Ганићевој одговорности |pages=1 |work=[[Radio Television of Serbia|RTS]] |url=https://www.rts.rs/page/stories/ci/story/134/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0/543301/%D0%9E+%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%98+%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8.html}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=5 May 2011 |title=Sarajevo ogorčeno zbog Divjaka |url=https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2011&mm=03&dd=05&nav_category=64&nav_id=497006 |website=B92}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Radovanovic |first=Rade |date=2 February 2012 |title=Slučaj Dobrovoljačka: Falsifikovanje istine |pages=1 |work=[[Alj Azeera]] |url=https://balkans.aljazeera.net/opinions/2012/2/2/slucaj-dobrovoljacka-falsifikovanje-istine}}</ref>', 25 => '', 26 => 'Shellings on Sarajevo on 24, 26, 28 and 29 May were attributed to Mladić by [[Boutros-Ghali]].{{sfn|Burg|Shoup|1999|p=132}} Civilian casualties of a 27 May shelling of the city led to Western intervention, in the form of sanctions imposed on 30 May through United Nations Security Council Resolution 757.{{sfn|Burg|Shoup|1999|p=132}} That same day Bosnian forces attacked the JNA barracks in the city, which was followed by heavy shelling.{{sfn|Burg|Shoup|1999|p=132}} On 5 and 6 June the last JNA personnel left the city during heavy street fighting and shelling.{{sfn|Burg|Shoup|1999|p=132}} The 20 June cease-fire, executed to allow the UN takeover of Sarajevo Airport for humanitarian flights, was broken as both sides battled for control of the territory between the city and airport.{{sfn|Burg|Shoup|1999|p=132}}', 27 => '', 28 => 'From 25-26 August, under command of Colonel [[Tomislav Šipčić]], burned down the Sarajevo City Hall by cannon fire from Serb positions.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 February 2022 |title=Tomislav Šipčić: General koji je spalio vijecnicu |pages=1 |work=[[Grad Sarajevo]] |url=https://www.sarajevo.ba/en/article/10160/tomislav-sipcic-general-koji-je-spalio-vijecnicu?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=EFA57BA1BFEF4C0CA6BCE14239D7366F}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=KOŠUTA |first=ZILHA |date=10 February 2022 |title=Umro Tomislav Šipčić, general koji je ubijao sarajevsku djecu, spalio Vijećnicu i tvrdio da “muslimani bacaju Srbe lavovima” |pages=1 |work=[[STAV]] |url=https://stav.ba/vijest/umro-tomislav-sipcic-general-koji-je-ubijao-sarajevsku-djecu-spalio-vijecnicu-i-tvrdio-da-muslimani-bacaju-srbe-lavovima/11399?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=CC34279A480A413D8E9A83AE608ACF5B}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Citation |title=Bosnians fear another war three decades on |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca2KuTtaqQc |language=en |access-date=2022-10-01}}</ref>', 29 => '', 30 => '== Details ==', 31 => 'On 30 August 1992 on the western edge on Sarajevo, a howizter shell hit and exploded in a busy Sarajevo Marketplace, killing 15 and seriously wounding 35-100.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> People came out and helped people, while some were taken to hospitals to be treated of there wounds. Some did not make it.<ref name=":5" /> It was the worst attack on Sarajevo up to that point.', 32 => '', 33 => '== London peace conference ==', 34 => 'The attack dwindled the chance that agreements reached last week in London at an international peace conference would reduce violence in the 6-month-old war.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":0" />', 35 => '', 36 => '== References ==', 37 => '<references />' ]