Between June 1993 and April 1994 the HVO besieged Bosniak-concentrated East Mostar, resulting in the deaths of numerous civilians, a cut off of humanitarian aid, damage or destruction of ten mosques, and the blowing up of the historic Stari Most bridge.

Mar 18, 2024 · At the beginning of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar saw three forces fighting each other on various fronts – the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croat-led Croatian Defence...

During the Croat–Bosniak War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina used the bridge as a military supply line, and the bridge was shelled by the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and collapsed on 9 November 1993. Subsequently, the bridge was reconstructed, and it re-opened on 23 July 2004.

Nov 9, 2023 · Thirty years after the Ottoman-era Old Bridge in the Bosnian city of Mostar was brought down by artillery fire, a soldier who captured its collapse on video looks back on the destruction and...

Nov 29, 2017 · On November 9, 1993, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural treasures became a casualty of war. The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by...

The Mostar Operation was a series of Yugoslav Partisan military operations in Herzegovina from February 6–15, 1945. Most of central Herzegovina was part of the District of Hum in the Independent State of Croatia. Mostar was also home to an air field of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia.

HVO forces (and its smaller divisions) engaged in a mass execution, ethnic cleansing and rape on the Bosniak people of the West Mostar and its surrounds and a fierce siege and shelling campaign on the Bosnian Government run East Mostar.

Apr 8, 2018 · Croatian forces shelled the bridge throughout the second siege of Mostar until it eventually crumbled on the 9 th November 1993. Mostar was the most heavily destroyed city in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the east of the city, with a majority Muslim population, was …

The Siege of Mostar was fought between 1992 and 1993. Initially, it involved the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the 4th Corps of the ARBiH fighting against the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.

Jun 8, 2022 · The old town of Mostar in Bosnia Herzegovina offers its visitors the possibility to visit a "War and Genocide Museum". Created from scratch four years ago by a small number of volunteers anxious to keep alive the memory of the war that tore the former Yugoslav republic apart between 1992 and 1995, the museum is made up of numerous personal stories.