THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Bosnian Serb general who ordered the relentless shelling, sniping, and indiscriminate terror that rained down on Sarajevo during the final phase of a 44-month siege, was convicted of war crimes yesterday and given a 33-year prison sentence.

Citing testimony from survivors of snipers’ bullets and makeshift missiles, the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted General Dragomir Milosevic of murder, inhumane acts, and waging a campaign of terror for orchestrating the last 15 months of the 1992–1995 barrage of the Bosnian capital.

“There was no safe place in Sarajevo,” Judge Patrick Robinson said, reading from the judgment. “One could be killed and injured anywhere and any time.”

General Milosevic, 65, sat silently listening to a summary of the lengthy judgment, then stood stoically as Judge Robinson pronounced sentence. He had denied all charges, arguing that the city was a battleground and that his troops were carrying out legitimate military operations.

The horror of the siege was played out in front of a global audience as television images broadcast worldwide showed shells slamming into apartment buildings and terrified shoppers huddling for cover behind slow-moving U.N. armored cars.

Stanislav Galic, Milosevic’s predecessor as commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo Romanija Corps whose 18,000 troops encircled and bombarded the city, is already serving a life sentence. However, Bosnian Serb army chief General Ratko Mladic is evading arrest for his overall command of the Sarajevo campaign and other atrocities, including the Srebrenica massacre. He is thought to be hiding in or near the Serbian capital of Belgrade.

In Sarajevo, survivors said the 33-year sentence — one of the most severe handed down by the U.N. court — was too short.

“Not enough,” said Esad Pozder, 60, a Muslim who survived the 1995 Sarajevo market massacre, when 43 civilians were killed and 84 were injured by a mortar shell fired from Serb positions.