Mark Sutcliffe, the mayor of Canada's capital, Ottawa, declared July 11 this year as the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica making this the first time that the capital honoured the victims of the biggest crime after the Holocaust in Europe, Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada (IGC) announced Friday.

The proclamation is of great significance for the remembrance because many deniers of judicial, historical and scientific facts about the genocide in Srebrenica live in the Canadian capital.

It is yet another invitation to the Bosnian Ambassador to Canada, Marko Milisav, who thus far has not respected the decisions of the Canadian Parliament on the genocide in Srebrenica or the decisions of the BiH authorities to lower the Bosnian flag at the Embassy to half-mast, on July 11.

So far the IGC received proclamations from the prime minister of the Canadian province of New Brunswick and the mayor of the largest Canadian city, Toronto, on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.

The central Canadian commemoration will be held on July 8 in Windsor in front of the first monument to the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica in the diaspora, the IGC announced.