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Sarajevo

Capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina; population (2005 est) 380,000. Industries include engineering, brewing, chemicals, carpets, and ceramics. A Bosnian, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand here in 1914, thereby precipitating World War I. From April 1992 the city was the target of a siege by Bosnian Serb forces in their fight to carve up the newly independent republic. A United Nations ultimatum and the threat of NATO bombing led to a ceasefire February 1994 and the effective end of the siege as Serbian heavy weaponry was withdrawn from the high points surrounding the city.
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In a statement by its Chairman Peter van Wulfften Palthe of the Netherlands, the Commission on Human Rights on 8 February declared that the deliberate and indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population of Saraievo was "part of a pattern of despicable and outrageous violations of international humanitarian law and human rights".
Return to 'normal life' in Sarajevo urged; new agreement, cease-fires ... by UN Chronicle
 
 
 
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