Qualla: Siege of Mostar https://qualla.com/siege-of-mostar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/siege-of-mostar-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Mostar https://qualla.com/siege-of-mostar Siege of Mostar: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-mostar/ Photo credit Choinowski, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mostar has the grim distinction of having been besieged twice by two different armies within two years. The first siege, from April to June 1992, pitted the Yugoslav People's Army against a combined Croat-Bosniak defense. The second, from June 1993 to April 1994, saw those same defenders turn on each other, as Croatian forces besieged the Bosniak population trapped in the eastern half of the city. Between the two sieges, at least 1,000 people died, 90,000 of the city's 120,000 residents fled, and Mostar became, in the assessment of postwar surveys, the most heavily destroyed city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The destruction of the Stari Most bridge on 9 November 1993 became the war's most recognizable image of cultural annihilation.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/s/w/siege-of-mostar-wp/srsw-siege-of-mostar-the-bridge-falls.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Mostar: What Remained https://qualla.com/siege-of-mostar/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.0 fr. The Washington Agreement of March 1994, brokered under heavy American pressure, ended the Croat-Bosniak War and established a federation between the two groups. But the agreement froze the ethnic division it was meant to heal. Before the war, Mostar's population had been roughly ...

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