1992 anti-war protests in Sarajevo

Anti-war protests in Sarajevo
Anti-war protests in Sarajevo
Part of the Siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian War
	Thousands of protesters in front of the parliament building.
Date	5–6 April 1992
Location	Sarajevo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Caused by	Bosnian Serb barricades set up around Sarajevo; Opposition to Serbian nationalist militias; Opposition to the pro-Yugoslav government;
Goals	Military withdrawal of the JNA forces and SDS paramilitary troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Methods	Demonstrations; Protests;
Resulted in	Government of the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina overthrown
Parties
Government opposition (De jure)	Government of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina SDS paramilitary forces; ; Government opposition (De facto)
Lead figures
	No centralized leadership Slobodan Milošević; Radovan Karadžić Alija Izetbegović; Dragan Vikić; Josip Pejaković
Number
100,000 protesters	6 snipers
Casualties and losses
Olga Sučić, Suada Dilberović, 4 more	Unknown

On 5 April 1992, in response to events all over Bosnia and Herzegovina 100,000 people of all nationalities turned out for a peace rally in Sarajevo. Serb Democratic Party (SDS) snipers in the Holiday Inn in the heart of Sarajevo opened fire on the crowd, killing six people and wounding several more. Suada Dilberović and an ethnic Croat woman Olga Sučić were in the first rows, protesting on the Vrbanja bridge at the time. The bridge on which Sučić and Dilberović were killed was later renamed in their honor. Six SDS snipers were arrested, but were exchanged when the SDS threatened to kill the commander of the Bosnian police academy who had been captured the previous day, after the Serb paramilitaries took over the academy and arrested him.