One of the most representative buildings from the Austro-Hungarian period in BiH, Sarajevo
The town hall was set on fire on August 25, 1992. Since its opening in 1896, the Town Hall
is a witness to all important events in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, primarily serving as a city building
administration, then as the seat of the Bosnian Parliament and the District Court. After the station
National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although during the siege of Sarajevo several times
shelled, the Town Hall was set on fire on the night of August 25-26, 1992, and the fire
the catalog of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina and about 90 percent of the book collection disappeared i
documents testifying to the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For the leadership of the "Bosnian Serbs", which is the term used in the Hague judgments for civil and
the military leadership of the RS in the period 1990-1995, the capital of the RBiH, Sarajevo, had a special significance.
It was explicitly mentioned as one of the strategic goals at the 16th session of the Assembly of the Republic
of Srpska, held on May 12, 1992, when six strategic goals of the Serbian people were defined.
Explaining the fifth strategic goal, that is, the division of Sarajevo "into the Serbian and Muslim parts and
establishment of effective state power in each of these two parts", Karadžić said on the 16
At the session of the RS Assembly, he said that the battles in Sarajevo and for Sarajevo, strategically and tactically, are from
of crucial importance, "the fighting around Sarajevo will decide the fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we sensed it before and Fr
that's what we said, if there is a war, it will start in Sarajevo and end in Sarajevo." On May 12
In 1992, a meeting of the Serbian leadership was held at which a plan was discussed based on which the
ensured "that Sarajevo becomes the political capital of Republika Srpska", it is stated in
Judgments in the case against the commander of the Sarajevo-Romanian Corps of the VRS, Stanislav
Galić and explains how two days later General Galić presided over a meeting with
to the municipal presidents at which he said that "Sarajevo must be divided or leveled with
by land.”
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Thirty-one years later, Sarajevo is still the capital of BiH, preserved and restored,
as the Town Hall, which is a symbol not only of the capital but also of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also restored.