White Road Day Marked in Sarajevo - Prijedorčani nisu zaobišli (VIDEO)

Improvised camp members of the AntiDayton movement today marked the "White Bands of Days" on Bascarsija in Sarajevo, a day of memories of the events that began on May 31, 1992 in the area of Prijedor municipality.

In Prijedor, during the war, 3,176 people were killed, of which 102 were children, and 50,000 people were expelled. On May 31, citizens of numerous BiH cities have called today for the construction of a monument to the Prijedor children killed. The "White Belt Day" in Prijedor, as well as numerous cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to be celebrated five years ago. Nihad Aličković's performance organizer said that in this way they wanted to show that Prijedor crimes were also remembered in Sarajevo and that the Prijedorans were not forgotten.

- By entering the entrance to the Manjača camp in the heart of Sarajevo, we wanted Sarajlija, guests and tourists to show how it seemed, how the perpetrators behaved towards the Prijedorans - emphasized Aličković. How they behaved best knew Elkaz Botonjić, a former warden. "I went to Omarska on 30 May from home. Torture has started from the first moment. We can not even imagine what they did to us. After five days we did not eat anything, then they were throwing us some bread and catching us, "Botonjić recalled.

He says the bullets had been bullied by bullets and they were killing dead objects. People have, allegedly, begged to kill them with a bullet.

"Now imagine what death was, a few people beat a man for five to six minutes to death," the former camp detachment from Omarska was transferred to Manjaca.

"Citizens of Serb ethnicity, join their army and police in pursuit of these extremists. Other citizens, Muslim and Croat nationalities, have to report white flags to their homes and flats and put white strips on their hands, otherwise they will have serious consequences." This was how he spoke the propaganda call of the Pro-media media on May 31, 1992 on Radio Prijedor. It was the beginning of an unprecedented slaughter that resulted in the killing of 3,173 innocent civilians and the closure of 31,000 people in detention camps.

For this reason, many citizens in BiH, as well as many European cities, wear white handwraps today in a sense of compassion with Prijedor's victims.

• 31 May, 2017
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