The White Ribbon Day, May 31. was marked on Sarajevo's Eiffel bridge with an artistic installation authored by Elma Selman and set up by 'Jer me se tiče' (Because it concerns me) non-governmental organisation who wanted to remember the slaughtered Prijedor civilians who died at the hands of Bosnian Serb Forces.
The White Ribbon Day has been marked since 2012 in memory of May 31, 1992, when the Crisis Staff of the Municipality of Prijedor forced the non-Serb population to mark their houses and apartments with white flags, while those moving around the city were forced to wear a white ribbon around forearms, Anadolu Agency reported.
One of the activists, Adis Hukanovic, pointed out that they organized this gathering under the slogan “For equality and the rights of all victims.”
“The White Ribbon Day is commemoration since 2012 when the families of the victims in Prijedor were banned from commemorating the murdered women and children. Later, that initiative grew into the initiative of parents of the murdered children to build a monument in the centre of Prijedor,” Hukanovic said.
“This installation represents a temporary memorial which was made by Elma Selman, the author of the installation,” he noted.
As in previous years, many Sarajevans paid tribute to Prijedor victims and showed solidarity with the fight of the people of Prijedor and all other victims who have been fighting for the right to remembrance for years by wearing white ribbons around their arms or displaying white cloth on windows and balconies.
Youths from the said NGO also handed out white ribbons in the streets of Sarajevo and tied ribbons on the Eiffel bridge with the names of slaughtered victims.
May 31 also marks the day when Omarska concentration camp was established which imprisoned over 3,300 non-Serb prisoners.
