The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare from the 5th April 1992 till the 29th February 1996 (1425 days). The Bosnian government estimated that shelling’s destroyed over 10,000 apartments and damaged over 100,000 others. Of the other buildings in the city, 23% were seriously damaged, 64% partly damaged and 10% slightly damaged.