Day white tape - marked by the suffering of non-Serbs in Prijedor
Prijedor, but in most parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the Day of white tape to commemorate the suffering of non-Serbs in the Prijedor region. After the military coup carried out in April, authorities Prijedor 31st May 1992 non-Serbs were ordered by radio to the visual highlight of white tape, and the house white sheets.
This was the introduction to the crimes that will happen after that. According to official information from the associations of victims in Prijedor killed a total of 3,173 civilians, while 31,000 people were detained in the camps around Prijedor. From late May to late August 1992 in Prijedor were killed 102 child and 256 women.
The day is marked by the white streaks in Banja Luka, where a group of civic activists wearing white ribbons on their hands's enclosed by a white stripe.
"Marks the beginning of etnogenocida when the RS authorities ordered all non-Serbs to sign loyalty hang white bed sheets on their houses and white ribbon to mark your body. After that, we all know what happened. There was a genocide in Prijedor, took place against the camps, extermination, deportation, not only in Prijedor but all municipalities under Bosnian Serb control. With this act, wanted to state clearly that the citizens of Banja Luka will not forget and to remember and Prijedor and Banja Luka, and the victims of Srebrenica, the Drina valley and Posavina, in a word, all the victims, "one of the genocidal policies that made what she did. We want to break the silence, its silence, "said Srdjan Dryer one of učesnikaskupa memories.
Marking and the region
The Ban Jelacic Square in Zagreb on white tape, gathered two dozen activists of the NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights, surrounding himself with white stripe. With this gesture sent a message of support to victims, their families, particularly families of children killed in Prijedor and their demand for raising the monument.
- 31 May, 2015
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