People across the world are on Friday wearing white ribbons on their arms to commemorate the massacre of 3,176 non-Serbs, including 102 children, which took place in the northwestern town of Prijedor during the 1992-1995 war.
On May 31, 1992, the Bosnian Serb local government ordered all non-Serbs in the Prijedor area to mark their houses with white sheets and to wear white ribbons on their arms.
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It was also the day the Omarska prison camp was established, where 3,300 of those people would end up.
About 50,000 people were exiled from Prijedor, while about 30,000 non-Serb men, women and children ended up in prison camps such as Keraterm, Trnopolje, Omarska and another 54 similar places.
Bosnia’s Youth Initiative for Human Rights is also organising a commemoration of the massacre in the capital. The activists are handing out white ribbons while wearing shirts containing information about the crime in front of Sarajevo’s Sacred Heart Cathedral.
