prijava
On 31 May 1992, Bosnian Serb wartime authorities in Prijedor issued an order through a local radio station that the non-Serb population is ordered to mark their homes with white flags or sheets and not to leave their homes without wearing white armbands.
"Serb citizens, join your army and the police in pursuit of these extremists. The rest of the citizens, Muslims and Croats, must place white flags on their homes and windows and wear white armbands or will suffer consequences," it was announced on Radio Prijedor on 31 May 1992. It was the beginning of unprecedented slaughter which resulted in the killing of 3,173 innocent civilians.
Many citizens of Prijedor who heard the call were found in October 2013, in the largest mass grave that the world has yet seen, in the village of Tomašica.
The White Armband Day is being marked in Prijedor and the entire BiH and the region in memory of the non-Serb victims of Prijedor and its surroundings.
According to official information from victims' associations, 3,173 civilians were killed in Prijedor, whereas 31,000 people were imprisoned in war camps around Prijedor.
The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo stated that 5,209 citizens of Prijedor were killed or went missing in direct military actions in the period between 1991 and 1995, of whom 4,093 Bosniaks, 898 Serbs and 182 Croats.
In the Great Park in Sarajevo near the Monument to the Murdered Children of Sarajevo, the AntiDayton group set up an installation with photos of the profiles of the children, but also those who are guilty of the crimes in which those children were killed in Prijedor and its surroundings.
"Our intent was to place the focus on the murdered children with the profiles of girls and boys in this installation. Today, and for the first time, we have publicly singled out all convicted war criminals in a special manner, all those who in their verdicts bear responsibility for the war crimes in Prijedor. Whether for concentration camps, whether for direct killings or orders. There are a total of 65 of them," said Alečković.
He emphasized that the goal of setting up today's, as well as all previous installations, is the fight against oblivion, the fight against the denial of the truth and the support for the erection of a monument for the murdered children of Prijedor.
(FENA) S. R.
