FILE PHOTO: Former Bosnian army general Jovan Divjak carries flowers which he received from supporters after being released from Austria, at the airport in Sarajevo, July 29, 2011. REUTERS/Danilo Krstanovic/File Photo
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sarajevo on Tuesday mourned a Serb general who helped defend the city while it was besieged by Serb forces for nearly four years in the 1990s, becoming a symbol of the multi-ethnic defence of the Bosnian capital.
Jovan Divjak was a former officer of the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA) who quit its ranks when the former Yugoslavia begun disintegrating, and joined the Bosnian army when war began there in April 1992. He died on Thursday after long illness aged 84.
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