Editing Siege of Sarajevo (section)

==Lifting of the siege==
Fighting escalated on the ground as joint Bosnian and Croatian forces went on the offensive with Operations [[Operation Mistral 2|Mistral 2]], [[Operation Sana|Sana]] and [[Operation Southern Move|Southern Move]] in September–October 1995. The Serbs were slowly driven back in Sarajevo and elsewhere, which eventually allowed the city's heating, electricity and water supplies to be restored.<ref name=":7" /> A [[ceasefire]] was reached in October 1995.<ref name=":7" /> On 14 December, the [[Dayton Agreement]] brought peace to the country and led to stabilization.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 1996 |title=Dayton Accords |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/dayton |access-date=5 May 2014 |publisher=US Department of State}}</ref>

One of the last acts of hostility of the siege occurred at around 6&nbsp;pm on 9 January 1996, when a single [[rocket-propelled grenade]] was fired at a tram running down the main street of Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman, Mirsada Durić, and wounding 19 others.<ref name=NewYorkTimes>"[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/10/world/sarajevo-grenade-leaves-one-dead-and-19-wounded.html Sarajevo Grenade Leaves One Dead And 19 Wounded] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120413/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/10/world/sarajevo-grenade-leaves-one-dead-and-19-wounded.html |date=6 March 2016 }}" (10 January 1996). The New York Times.</ref> The grenade was fired from the neighbourhood of [[Grbavica (Sarajevo)|Grbavica]], which was held by the Serbs at the time.<ref name=":7" /> After the attack, French troops from the [[Implementation Force]] (IFOR) searched the building from which the grenade was launched but did not capture the perpetrator(s).<ref name=":7" />

The Bosnian government officially declared an end to the siege of Sarajevo on 29 February 1996, when Bosnian Serb forces left positions in and around the city.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kidd |first1=James |title=The ghosts of Sarajevo: a journalist looks back at the enduring tragedy of the Balkan wars |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/the-ghosts-of-sarajevo-a-journalist-looks-back-at-the-enduring-tragedy-of-the-balkan-wars-1.76494 |access-date=17 September 2021 |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |date=30 March 2017}}</ref> More than 70,000 Sarajevan Serbs subsequently left the Muslim-controlled districts of the city and moved to the Republika Srpska, taking all of their belongings with them.<ref>{{cite book| last1=Dubinsky| first1=Alex| last2=Djukić| first2=Slavoljub| title=Milosevic and Markovic: A Lust for Power| publisher=McGill-Queen's Press | year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7735-6939-3|pages=83–84}}</ref>