31.05.2012
MeÄ‘unarodni ekspertni tim Instituta za istraživanje genocida Kanade zahtijeva od Älanova Upravnog odbora Vijeća za implementaciju mira u Bosni i Hercegovini, od predsjednika Kanade, Francuske, NjemaÄke, Italije, Japana, Rusije, Velike Britanije, SAD-a, Predsjedništva Europske Unije, Europske komisije, Organizacije islamske konferencije i Visoko predstavnika u Bosni i Hercegovini
Hitni i javni zahtjev gospodinu Marku Paviću, gradonaÄelniku Prijedor i lokalnoj vlasti u Prijedoru da priznaju ratne zloÄine poÄinjene u Prijedoru, odaju poÄast žrtava, te omoguće pristup na mjestu nekadašnjeg koncentracionog logora smrti u Omarskoj.
Historijske Äinjenice:
Trideset i prvog maja 1992. godine vlasti bosanskih Srba u Prijedoru izdale su naredbu putem lokalnog radija kojom se naredjuje nesprskom stanovnistvu da obiljezi svoje kuce bijelim zastavama ili carsafima, i da pri izlasku iz kuca stave bijele bijele trake oko rukava. Ovo je bio pocetak kampanje istrebljenja u kojoj su provodjene masovne egzekucije, silovanja, otvarani koncentracioni logori i cinjeni drugi zlocini, i ciji je konacni ishod bio uklanjanje 94% bosanskih Muslimana i bosanskih Hrvata sa teritorije opstine Prijedor.
Ovo je bio prvi put od 1939. i nacistickog proglasa po kojem su poljski Jevreji morali nositi bijele trake sa plavom Davidovom zvijezdom oko rukava, da su clanovi jedne etnicke ili religijske grupe na ovaj nacin bili obiljezeni za istrebljenje.
Internacionalni ekspertni tim Instituta za Istraživanje genocida Kanada koristi ovu priliku da još jednom podjsti svijet da je u Prijedoru izvršen masovni zloÄin genocida, kulturocida, ekocida, etnocida, urbicida, elitocida, masovno, namjerno, organizovano ubijanje, protjerivanje, silovanje prije svega, Bošnjaka, a zatim i Hrvata. Ubijanja Bošnjaka vršena su na svakom mjestu i svugdje, tijela ubijenih ležala su i više dana, a onda su ih zarobljeni skupljali na kamione koji su odvoženi na razliÄite lokacije. Poseban je primjer ubijanja logoraša u rejonu Korićanske stijene (općina Skender Vakuf), gdje je 21. augusta 1992. ubijeno više od dvije stotine logoraša. Pripadnici interventnog voda policije ubili su i u provaliju, duboku preko 200 metara, bacili tijela ubijenih. Pored masovnih (128, sa 1.511 tijela) i pojedinaÄnih (278, sa 278 tijela) grobnica ekshumiranih na teritoriji općine Prijedor, tijela PrijedorÄana su pronalažena u masovnim i pojedinaÄnim grobnicama u još šesnaest drugih gradova. Radi se o 312 ekshumiranih tijela, od Äega je 276 identifikovano.
Genocid u Prijedoru je razmatran na MeÄ‘unarodnom kriviÄnom tribunalu za podruÄije bivše Jugoslavije u Hagu meÄ‘upresudom Slobodanu Miloševiću i optužnicama protiv Radovana Karadžića i Ratka Mladića. Za genocid u Prijedoru dosada je osuÄ‘eno 28 osoba, najviše na MeÄ‘unarodnom kriviÄnom tribunalu za podruÄije bivše Jugoslavije u Hagu. No, procesuiranjem genocida u Prijedoru bavili su se i Sud Bosne i Hercegovine, te Okružni sud u Banjoj Luci.
Danas je Bosna i Hercegovina drzava koja funkcionise na osnovama mirovnog sporazuma potpisanog 1995. po kojem je Prijedor zavrsio u Republici Srpskoj.
Opstinske vlasti u Prijedoru do danasnjeg dana nisu zrtvama ove genocidne kampanje na bilo koji nacin odali postu za patnje korz koje su prosli. Gradonacelnik Marko Pavic i lokalne vlasti odbijaju javno priznati da su zlocini pocinjeni u Prijedoru, uprkos brojnim presudama medjunarodnih i lokalnih sudova. Podizanje spomenika u spoment prijedorskim zrtvama u gradu nije dozvoljen, a pristup mjestima zlocina onemogucuju mnogi ukljucujuci i Acelor-Mittal, kompaniju koja je danas vlasnik lokacije na kojoj se nalazio zloglasni logor Omarska.
Pozivamo Vas da hitno i javno zatražite od gospodina Marka Pavića, gradonaÄelnika Prijedora i lokalnih vlasti u Prijedoru da priznaju zloÄine poÄinjene u Prijedoru, odaju dužnu poÄast žrtvama tih zloÄina i omuguće pristup mjestu nekadašnjeg koncentracionog logora smrti u Omarskoj.
Pozivamo sve svijetske politiÄke i pravne autoritete, organizacije i institucije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i sloboda da dignu svoj glas u zaštitu prava preživjelih žrtava genocida u Prijedoru, za bolju budućnost za Prijedora i Bosne i Hercegovine. To je potrebno kako se genocid ne bi više nikada i nikome ponovio.
Pozivamo Vas da pokazati svoju solidarnost sa žrtvama genocida u Prijedoru.
A public call of the International Expert Team of the Institute for Research Genocide Canada for the Members of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council
To the Leaders of: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, the European Union, European Commission, and Organisation of the Islamic Conference:
We are appealing to you to urgently and publicly request Mr. Marko Pavic, mayor of Prijedor and the Prijedor local authority to acknowledge the crimes committed in Prijedor, to honor victims of those crimes, and to allow access to the site of the former concentration camp in Omarska.
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 that members of an ethnic or religious group were marked and prepared for extermination. In the same way that the Nazis forced the Polish Jews to wear white armbands with the star of David,the Serbs did the same with Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, as a way of preparing them for extermination.
The International Expert Team of the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada would like to take this opportunity to once again remind the World that genocide and crimes against humanity were continuous in the municipality of Prijedor during the period of 1992 to1995. As a result 102 children and 256 women were killed, a total of 3173 civilians parished, 31,000 people were detained in death camps, 53,000 people were victims of persecution and deportation. In just three months 94 percent of the Bosniak population from Prijedor was eliminated.
In Prijedor mass genocide, culturecide, ecocide, ethnocide, urbicide, elitocida, massive, deliberate, organized killing, expulsion, rape of primarily Bosniaks and the Croats was conducted.
The genocide in Prijedor was explored at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) during Slobodan Milosevic’s trial and in the interim indictments against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Thus far 28 people have been convicted for the genocide in Prijedor in the ICTY. The prosecution of genocide in Prijedor was also present in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the District Court in Banja Luka.
Bosnia and Herzgovina is today a country that functions on the basis of a peace agreement signed in 1995 which left Prijedor in the hands of Bosnian Serbs. At the moment Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats who decided to return to Prijedor have been denied the right to commemorate the war crimes and genocide that occurred in Prijedor.
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.
We invite you to urgently and publicly request Mr. Marko Pavic, mayor of Prijedor and the Prijedor local authority to acknowledge the crimes committed in Prijedor, to honor victims of those crimes, and to access to site of the former concentration camp in Omarska.
We also invite all of the world’s most influential political, and legal entities, as well as organizations and institutions that are fighting against genocide to protect human rights and freedoms. We further ask for the protection of the rights of the survivors of genocide and families of victims in Prijedor for a better future for Prijedor and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is necessary so that genocide should never happen again.
We invite you to show your solidarity with victims of mass atrocities committed in Prijedor.
Potpisnici pisma:
Sir Elie Wiesel, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor
Keith Doubt, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Wittenberg University
Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, former High Representative for the B&H
M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law Emeritus, President Emeritus International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University, Chicago Illinois USA; President, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy
Francis Anthony Boyle, PhD, Professor of international law at the University of Illinois. Francis Boyle is a human rights lawyer and professor of law at the University of Illinois. As an internationally recognized expert, Professor Boyle serves as counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine
David Pettigrew, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, USA,
Marko Attila Hoare, PhD, Professor, Kingston University, London – a world renowned British historian of the Former Yugoslavia, UK,
Tilman Zülch, Society for Threatened Peoples International , President, Göttingen, Germany
Kathleen E. Mahoney, PhD, Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law
Dr. Alan Mendoza, Executive Director, The Henry Jackson Society
Carole Hodge PhD, Post Genocide Education Foundation
Dr. Gregory Weeks , Head of the International Relations Department at Webster University in Vienna, Austria.
Payam Akhavan, PhD, — Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, a former UN war crimes prosecutor at The Hague and co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre
Daniel Kofman, PhD, - Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
Prof. Daniel Blatman, Max and Rita Haber Chair in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies, Head, The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anatoly Isaenko, Professor of History, Department of History, Old Belk Library, ASU
Dr Donna-Lee Frieze, Research Fellow, Deakin University, School of History, Melbourne Australia 3125
Nader Hashemi, Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics Josef Korbel School of International Studies; University of Denver CO, USA,
Safia Soliman, PhD Professor, Gloucester, UK,
Jason K. Levy, PhD, Associate Professor, Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Richmond, VA, USA
James E. Waller, PhD, Professor, Cohen Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Keene
Brian Glyn Williams, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Steven Leonard Jacobs, PhD, Professor, The University of Alabama, Department of Religious Studies, Tuscaloosa
Florence Hartmann, French journalist and author, France
Erhard Busek, PhD, Coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative and Chairman of the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo
Martin Salm, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future
Linda Melvern, PhD, Professor, investigative journalist and author
Mark Hanis, President of the Genocide Intervention Network
Ron Adams, PhD, Professor, La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia
Patrick McCarthy, Advisor to the current exhibit on genocide in Prijedor and I co-authored a book about the Srebrenica genocide
Daniel Feierstein, PhD, Professor
Roger M. Richards, Filmmaker-Photographer-Writer,USA
Konstanty Gebert, Journalist, Warsaw, Poland
Gianmarco Biasone, MAP
Ron Haviv, Photographer/Author/Lecturer and co founder VII Photo Agency
Alexander Iskanderian, Director, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, political analyst and Director of the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute
Sara Cohan, Education Director The Education Project
Steven Leonard Jacobs
Emira Hrnjic-Larson, Webster University, Vienna
Chris Mathieu, Bosnia twenty years later, I love Bosnia
Sandra Korosec PhD, Jensen, JENSEN Medical Consult, Basel
Mr. Stefan Schwarz, Balkan Institute, Germany
Aamir Qureshi, Software Engineer, San Jose Ca
Judith Armatta is a lawyer, journalist, and human-rights advocate, Attorney at Law, Virginia
Roger Lippman
Mr. Matteo Bastianelli
Smail Cekic, PhD, Professor of History at the University Sarajevo and head of the Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law
Midhat Ridjanovic, PhD, Professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Sarajevo
Vladimir Premec, Academician Professor, PhD, Secretary, Department of Humanistic Studies, Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, BiH
Goran Bandov, Prof.dr.sc., University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia
Mirsada Hukic, PhD, Professor, Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Head of the Instate of Clinical Microbiology Clinical Center University of Sarajevo and Professor at University in Sarajevo and University in Tuzla
Esad Durakovic, PhD, Professor, University of Sarajevo and Member Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Department of humanities
Abdulah Sidran, Academician Member of the The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, writer and poet
Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat, PhD, Professor, Jean Monnet Chair University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Jadran Jelin, Ph.D., Computer Science, Canada
Hamza Mujagic, PhD, Professor, Visiting Professor of Oncology and Hematology, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Ivo Djurok, PhD, Professor Sociology and Political Science at University of Pecs, Hungary
Fahrudin Novalic, PhD, Zagreb, Croatia
Jusuf Bejtovic, MPA, Faculty of Law, Bosnia, Immigration Consulting
Sefket Krcic, PhD, Professor, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia, Professor, Universitu of Travnik – Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Bosniac National Council of Sandzak, Serbia, Europa
Kemal Gutić, PhD, Professor, acting dean, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jakob Finci, Ambassador, President of the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sabina Cehajic-Clancy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Director, Balkan Institute for Conflict Resolution, Responsibility and Reconciliation, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
Lejla Starcevic-Srkalovic, the project coordinator at the University of Hamburg
Sead Berberović, PhD, Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Associate Member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering , Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Danis Tanović, Bosnian film director and screenwriter, directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man’s Land which won an Academy Award, member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
Enis Omerović, PhD candidate in International Law. Senior Research Assistant at the Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law of the University of Sarajevo
Edina Becirevic, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Sarajevo
Dennis Gratz, PhD, Phil .Lecturer on “Genocide and Genocidal Atrocities in Theory and International Law” at the Center for Interdisciplinary
Hariz Halilovich PhD, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sakib Softic, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Sarajevo, former B&H agent in the dispute (Bosnia v Serbia) before the ICJ
Sahza Hatibovic Kofman, PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Mirza Trokic, PhD, Department of Economics McGill University, Montreal QC Canada; University of Denver CO, USA
Zijad Delic, PhD, Canada
Nedzad Latic, Writer, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Senadin Lavic, PhD Professor, University, Sarajevo, Faculty of Political Science
Suad Arnautovic, PhD, Professor, University, Sarajevo
Ibrakovic Dzelal, PhD, Proffesor, University, Sarajevo
Dzemaludin Latic, PhD, Professor, University Sarajevo, B&H
Sacir Filandra, PhD, Professor, University Sarajevo, B&H
Lejla Panjeta, PhD, Professor, University of Sarajevo, B&H
Alija Suljic, PhD, Professor, University of Tuzla, B&H
Ferid Muhic, PhD, Professor, University of Skopje, Macedonia
Ferid Kugic, PhD, Esslingen
Marjan Hajnal MPA Political Science, Author and Journalist, Israel
Fatmir Alispahic, MPA. Tuzla, B&H
Amir Ahmic, Bosniak liaison officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, Netherlands
Emir Zlatar, MPA, Sarajevo
Bakhtyar Aljaf, Director of the International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zijad Becirovic, MPA, Director of the International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alaga Dervisevic, MPA, Sarajevo, B&H, Associate of the Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, B&H
Nurudin Kusturica, MPA, Sarajevo, Marketing management, Associate of the Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, Sarajevo, B&H
Adamir Jerkovic, director of the Archives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haris Zulic, PhD, Pfizer, Inc
Senad Hadziselimovic, PhD, President of the Bosniak Academic Forum
Nedim Makarevic , PhD, E-One Studio GmbH
Maja Kasa, Professor, Osijek, Croatia
Daniel Toljaga, Researcher of genocide
Ante Milinovic, MPA, Zagreb, Croatia
Suzana Vukic, Columnist of the Hudson Gazette, Montreal, Canada
Asim Bešlija, Journalist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Goran Kapetanovic, Toronto, Canada
Aldina Muslija, University of Toronto, Canada
Zeljko Milicevic, President of the Justice for Bosnia Task Force, Ottawa, Canada
Eno Causevic, Hamilton, Canada
Emina Gadzo, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science
Mersiha Gadzo, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science
Irfan Cehajic, Toronto, Canada
Fadil Kulasic, Toronto, Canada
Lejla Odobasic, MPA, Toronto, Canada
Velma Saric, University of Sarajevo, Sociology -Postgraduate study (Faculty of Political Science). Project manager in Centre for Justice and Reconciliation (CJR) and Atlantic Initiative AI) Sarajevo. An IWPR trained journalist (Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) London
Haris Alibašić, MPA, PhD Candidate, Work: City of Grand Rapids, Director of Office of Energy and Sustainability & Grand Valley State University, Adjunct Faculty
Jasmin Odobasic, Sarajevo, a survivor of the Bosnian genocide
Dijana Muminovic, photojournalist
Erdin Kadunic, Bachelor of Political Science
Osman Softic, MPA, Vice President, Student Services, American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dzeneta Trokic, Bachelor Degree, University of Western Ontario
Hikmet Karcic, Activist and Visegrad Genocide expert
Admir Kicic, Master of Arts in Politics and International Relations (University of New South Wales), Bachelor of Arts in Communications (University of Technology Sydney)., International Relations and Trade Consultant at International Relations Consultancy (a privately owned company) and Independent Researcher in the areas of: international politics, global political economy, peace and conflict, Balkans and Middle Eastern Studies and Conflict Management and Negotiations
Irma Murselovic, Windsor
Jasmina Djikic, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Currently completing a Masters Degree in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Sonja Radosevic, Podgorica, Montenegro, freelance journalist
Meliha Pihura, New York, USA
Muhamed Velic, Professor, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mirza Velagic, Seattle
Zlatka Velagic, Seattle
Ervin Sendijarevic, PhD, Netherlands
Tahir Pervan, Journalist, writer, author, President and founder of the “Allied Democratic Initiatives Herzegovina, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ibrahim Čikić, Columnist, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
Ana, Komnenic, International Relations student at the University of British Columbia
Sadmir Karović, Master of Criminal Law, Law-Faculty, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Salim A. Hadzic, Doctor of Philosophy, Vienna, Austria
Sanida Aljic, University of Toronto
Medin Islamovic, Canada, Expert in security and investigation field, Private Investigator
Senad Alicehajic, Windsor, Canada
Senad Pasalic, Windsor, Canada
Becir Terzic, Toronto
Admir Muratovic, PhD, Professor, Director of the Research Institute of crimes and genocide, University of Novi Pazar, Sandzak, Srbia
Halilagić Nermin, MPA
Azra Duric, Project Management Professional
Kerim Kalamujić, Mozilla Community BiH
Bakira Hasecic, President of the Association of Women Victims of War
Hamdo Camo, Professor
Mesa Pargan, Journalist, Sarajevo,
Sabina Mujanovic, MPA, Analyst, Service Excellence Department, Texas Health Resources, Arlington,
Denis Hopovac, Bank of America
Satko Mujagic, a survivor of the Bosnian genocide, Master of Law, Survivor of Omarska Concentration Camp, Founder of the group “Guardians of Omarska
Esad Boskailo, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix and Associate Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the Maricopa Integrated Health System. Trained in family medicine in Bosnia, he works with survivors of trauma from domestic abuse to war
Jasna Causevic, Referat Südosteuropa, Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker e.V. (GfbV), Göttingen
Emir Ramic, Professor, Director Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada