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ACTION ALERT: WHITE ARM BAND DAY IN NORTH AMERICA

ACTION ALERT: WHITE ARM BAND DAY IN NORTH AMERICA

 

The Congress of North American Bosniaks {CNAB} and the Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada {IGC} invite all friends of truth and justice in  North America to show solidarity with victims of genocide committed in Prijedor

 

Your support and active participation in the White arm band day  is the best support for the victims of genocide in Prijedor

 

The Congress of North American Bosniaks and the Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada invite all friends of truth and justice in North America to show solidarity with victims of genocide committed in Prijedor and around the world on 31 May by wearing a white armband or placing a white sheet or flag on your window.  This action is intended to raise awareness of the struggle for acknowledgement of millions who suffered injustice and harm.  Let’s make this a day to raise our voices against the denial of truth about past atrocities. On 31 May, let’s be the voices of countless victims who were targeted for their race, ethnicity or political beliefs.

 

On 31 May 1992, the Bosnian Serb authorities in Prijedor, a town in north western Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued a decree for all non-Serbs to mark their houses with white flags or sheets and to wear a white armband if they were to leave their houses. This was the first day of a campaign of extermination that resulted in executions, concentration camps, mass rapes and the ultimate removal of more than 94% of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from the territory of the Prijedor municipality. This was the first time since the 1939 Nazi decree for Polish Jews to wear white armbands with the blue Star of David that members of an ethnic or religious group were to be marked for extermination in this way.

 

Members of the European Commission Monitoring Mission testified that while visiting a mixed Serb/Muslim village as late as August 1992 they saw that the Muslim houses were marked with white flags in order to distinguish them from the Serb houses. The campaign of persecution of non-Serbs that ensued was judged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to amount to actus reus of genocide.

 

Thousands of people were killed, detained, tortured, deported or raped and the community that was known as Prijedor was changed forever.

 

Victims of the genocidal campaign carried out in Prijedor have not received any acknowledgement of their suffering from the municipal authorities to this day. The mayor Marko Pavic and the local government refuse to publicly acknowledge any of the crimes committed in Prijedor, despite numerous judgments of international and local courts. Memorials honoring victims of this campaign have been forbidden and access to sites of their suffering denied by the likes of ArcelorMIttal, a company that now owns the site of the former concentration camp in Omarska.

 

So, please join us in remembering all victims who suffered injustice and harm by wearing a white armband and marking your house with a white sheet on May 31st as a sign of solidarity with the victims and survivors of genocide.

 

Congress of North American Bosniaks {CNAB}

 

Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada {IGC}

 

 

PAŽNJA – AKCIJA: DAN BIJELIH TRAKA U SJEVERNOJ AMERICI

 

Kongres Bošnjaka Sjeverne Amerike {KBSA} i Institut za istraživanje genocida, Kanada {IGK} pozivaju sve prijatelje istine i pravde u Sjevernoj Americi da učestvuju u akciji „Dan bijelih traka“

 

Vaša podrška i aktivno učešÄ‡e u Danu bijelih traka je najbolja podrška za žrtve genocida u Prijedoru

 

U ime podizanje svijesti o borbi za dostojanstvo žrtava masovnih zločina i nepravde, KBSA i IGKi pozivaju sve prijatelje istine i pravde u Sjevernoj Americi da učestvuju u akciji „Dan bijelih traka“, 31. maja 2013. KBSA i IGK apeluju na sve američke ikanadske Bošnjake, na sve njihove organizacije i na sve prijatelje istine i pravde da na taj dan nošenjem bijele trake na ruci, ili isticanjem bijele zastave na prozorima simbolično pokažu da svijet još uvijek nije izvukao poruku iz holokausta, dopustivši da se genocid pojavi na tlu Evrope na kraju dvadesetog vijeka.

 

31. maja 1992. godine vlasti bosanskih Srba u Prijedoru su putem lokalnog radija naredile nesrpskom stanovništvu da obilježi svoje kuće bijelim zastavama i da pri izlasku iz kuća stave bijele trake oko rukava. Nakon toga u Prijedoru je ubijeno 3173 civila, uključujući 102 djece i 256 žena. U logorima Keraterm, Omarska i Trnopolje je zatočeno 31.000 ljudi i na kraju oko 53.000 opljačkano, poniženo i protjerano. Sva vjerska, kulturna i ekonomska dobra Bošnjaka i Hrvata u opštini Prijedor su totalno uništena.

 

Danas gradonačelnik Prijedora Marko Pavić i gradska uprava zabranjuju žrtvama agresije i genocida da obilježe stradanje na bilo kojem javnom prostoru u gradu. Opštinske vlasti u Prijedoru do današnjeg dana nisu žrtvama ove genocidne kampanje na bilo koji način odali poštu za patnje kroz koje su prošli.

 

Tako vas molimo da 31. maja 2014. godine učestvujute u akciji "Dan bijelih traka" i da na taj dan nosite bijele trake na ruci, ili stavite bijele zastave na prozore i tako date podršku žrtvama genocida.

 

Kongres Bošnjaka Sjeverne Amerike {KBSA}

 

Institut za istraživanje genocida, Kanada {IGK}

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http://www.bosnjaci.net/prilog.php?rid=1&pid=52106

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