Despite an earlier ban from the Prijedor Police, the Association “Jer me se tice” (Cause It Concerns Me) organised the White Ribbon Day march, at which they prevented the Federation (FBiH) entity’s Prime Minister, Fadil Novalic, from making a statement.

During the event, the organisers and several hundred BiH citizens gathered recalled the names of 102 murdered children at the Major Zoran Karlica Square in Prijedor.

When Novalic approached the site to lay his flowers, Fikret Bacic from the Association of Parents of Murdered Children of Prijedor asked him to pay his respects, but not make any statement.

To this, Novalic answered “certainly” and laid his flowers.

When he approached the media to give them a statement, was removed from the Square at the moment when he started addressing them. Edin Ramulić from the initiative “Because it concerns me,” with the support of several others present, did not allow the Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to give a statement to the media, which is why Novalic was removed from the square.

Fadilu Novaliću nije dozvoljeno da se obrati medijima u Prijedoru. Iz inicijative "Jer me se tiče" su mu poručili, "možete odati počast, ali ovdje nemojte davati izjave". Novalić kratko odgovorio "slažem se" potom se udaljio #danbijelihtraka #prijedor pic.twitter.com/4jHAfo6cpo

— TV N1 Sarajevo (@N1infoSA) May 31, 2022

The organizers of the White Ribbon Day in Prijedor have repeatedly appealed to the media not to give room in their programs to political representatives to talk about the White Ribbon Day, claiming that political representatives use this day for personal promotion.

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.

This was an introduction to the ethnic cleansing of the non-Serb population in the Prijedor area. During the next three and a half years, 3,176 people were killed in and around Prijedor. Tens of thousands of people were sent to concentration camps (Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm), where they were subjected to mass executions, rape, various forms of torture, as well as crimes against humanity. Among those killed in Prijedor were 102 children under the age of 18.