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SARAJEVO, August 28 (FENA) – The 23rd anniversary of the massacre at Markale City Market was marked today at Sarajevo's Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street. On 28 August 1995, a mortar shell fired from the aggressor positions killed 43 civilians, lightly and severely wounded 84, of whom three were children.
Numerous representatives of the authorities and citizens of Sarajevo paid tribute to the victims by laying flowers, holding a minute’s silence and saying prayers.
Mortar shell of 120 mm caliber, fired from the enemy’s positions from the direction of Mt Trebević, exploded at the northern entrance to the City Market, and this is considered to be one of the most terrible crimes committed by the Serb military, police and paramilitary formations in the besieged Sarajevo.
During the war of aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, more than 11.500 people were killed during the siege of Sarajevo, of whom more than 1.600 children.
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