month siege that claimed 10,500 lives, including 1,800 children, and became a symbol of wartime suffering in Bosnia. Some 50,000 people were injured during the siege, punctuated by atrocities such as mortar attacks on crowded markets and shooting at children playing in the streets. Another commander of the Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galic, was tried at The Hague last year and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors at his trial said Bosnian Serb forces had plunged the city into a "medieval hell". About 200,000 people were killed in the war between Bosnians, Serbs and Croats after Bosnia declared independence from the Yugoslav federation and rebel Serbs declared a breakaway state. The 1995 Dayton peace agreement divided post-war Bosnia into two highly autonomous regions -- a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic -- under a loose umbrella government. --SP 1927 Local Time 1627 GMT
