The Sarajevo Association of War Victims criticized the plan to build the cross , calling it shameful to build the memorial in a location from which the Serb artillery pounded the city , killing thousands of people . The association issued a statement calling the planned monument a " provocation for the citizens of Sarajevo . " Residents of Sarajevo , witnesses in the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) prosecutions , confirmed that during the war , city was shelled frequently from firing positions at Mount Trebević , harming many civilians . The ICTY has convicted two Bosnian Serb generals of war crimes for ordering the relentless shelling , sniping and indiscriminate terror in Sarajevo during the 44-month siege . The artillery position on Trebević was one of the deadliest . In the ICTY prosecution of Dragomir Milošević and Stanislav Galić , a former commanders of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps of the Republika Srpska Army , he was sentenced to 29 years in prison for the terror , murder and inhumane acts conducted during a campaign of sniping and shelling which resulted in the injury and death of a great number of civilians in the besieged Bosnian capital . A huge part of the shelling and sniping came from the slopes of Mount Trebević . ICTY trial chamber also found that " the mortar shell causing second Markale massacres at around 11:00 AM on 28 August 1995 . was fired from the ( Bosnian-Serb ) VRS held territory on the slopes of Mt. Trebević
Markale massacres
Markale massacres
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