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Spontaneous peace marches took place, involving thousands of people taking to the streets, with the largest group of protestors heading for the Parliament building. Unidentified gunmen were then reported to have fired into the crowd from the top of a hotel, with one protestor confirmed dead.
The subsequent siege and relentless bombardment from the hills surrounding Sarajevo took an enormous physical toll on the city and its inhabitants, with estimates of 5,000 people having been killed or reported missing.
Some estimates report an average of approximately 329 shell impacts per day during the course of the siege, with a high of 3,777 shell impacts on 22 July 1993. This shellfire has caused extensive damage to the city's structures, including civilian and cultural property.
The siege ended in 1995.
On February 29, 1996, the Bosnian government declared that the siege of Sarajevo was over.