These are interesting for soemthing other than the Mosque. This buidling was at the very corner of Bosniak territory, across a wide street from Serbia controlled hills. The big street in front was called snipper alley.
All of the new columns in the picture below are headstones from the time of the seige.
I went to the Historical Museum today and found the seige lasted 1480 some days. From part of 1992 - 1996. The longest seige in modern history.
The historical museum has an entire floor of items donated by residents - pictures of the seige and makeshift fixtures (coverted wastecans into ovens with makeshift vents through walls). The pictures are heart breaking.
The straw that broke Clinton's patience was an attack on a market with people waiting for food that killed 60. That had been the second attack in a matter of days on civlilians in the hundreds and that is when Clinton started bombing Serbia and Serbian positions in Bosnia. The seige was mainly ignored by press in the West, by NATO, by the EU, by the UN and by the US, until this attack.
And yet, the people here are remarkably grateful. In that same museum are big exhibits on the UN and the international criminal court (about 60 Serbians were tried for war crimes in Bosnia and Bosnia refuge camps). There is a big section devoted to Susan Sontag and New York artists who came to Sarajevo and staged plays in homes on bomb shelters - and who tried to spread the word through the arts because people ignored the news media. It is an attitude I really doubt I could emulate.