Editing Siege of Sarajevo (section)

===1993===
On 8 January 1993, [[Hakija Turajlić]], the Deputy Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb soldier.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor| url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0111/11032.html| title= Bosnia Talks Resume in Geneva| date= 11 January 1993| access-date= 10 October 2012}}</ref> Turajlić, who had gone to Sarajevo Airport to greet a Turkish delegation, was returning to the city in a United Nations armored vehicle that had taken him there when a force of two tanks and 40–50 Bosnian Serb soldiers blockaded the road. The Serbs, acting on radioed information from a Serbian military liaison officer at the airport that "Turkish fighters" were on their way to reinforce the Bosnian defenders, accused the three French soldiers manning the armored vehicle of transporting "Turkish mujahedeen". After a Serbian military liaison officer identified the passenger as Turajlić, the Serbs ordered the UN soldiers to hand him over. The rear door was opened, and one of the Serbs fired seven shots at Turajlić from an automatic weapon. Six bullets struck him in the chest and arms, killing him instantly.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper= The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/10/world/bosnian-muslims-criticize-un-over-official-s-killing.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm| author= John F. Burns| title= Bosnian Muslims Criticize U.N. Over Official's Killing| date= 10 January 1993| access-date= 10 November 2012}}</ref> A Bosnian Serb soldier, Goran Vasić, was eventually charged with Turajlić's murder but was ultimately acquitted of that charge in 2002.<ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/98024384.html?dids=98024384:98024384&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Jan+4%2C+2002&author=&desc=WORLD%3B+In+Brief WORLD; In Brief.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015075242/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/98024384.html?dids=98024384:98024384&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Jan+4%2C+2002&author=&desc=WORLD%3B+In+Brief |date=15 October 2012 }} [[Washington Post]], 4 January 2002. Quote:"A Sarajevo court has convicted a Bosnian Serb soldier of committing war crimes against prisoners but acquitted him of killing the country's deputy prime minister. Goran Vasić was sentenced to 4½ years in prison, local media reported. He was convicted on charges of beating prisoners at the Medjarici camp in Sarajevo during the country's 1992–1995 war. The court said it lacked evidence to convict him of killing Hakija Turajlić, the deputy prime minister of Bosnia in 1992."</ref>

On 6 May 1993, the [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 824]] declared that Sarajevo be a UN Safe Area (along with Žepa, Goražde, Tuzla, and Bihać). These cities and territories were placed under the protection of UNPROFOR peacekeeping units.