On the occasion of multiple public gatherings in this city that were announced for Tuesday, the Prijedor Police Administration called on citizens not to endanger their own safety and the safety of others, to respect the orders of police officers on the ground and to act in accordance with legal regulations.

“We call on citizens, participants in public gatherings, organizers and leaders of peaceful gatherings to, above all, through peaceful and tolerant behaviour at rallies fully ensure the implementation of the goal of the gathering, but also the implementation of measures and restrictions imposed by the Prijedor Police Administration,” the Police said.

The Prijedor Police Administration called on the media representatives who will cover the rallies to wear prominent journalist credentials in accordance with the existing regulations, in order to make identification by authorized persons easier, bearing in mind that a large number of citizens will be at the rallies.

The announcement states that three public gatherings have been announced for Tuesday on Major Zoran Karlica Square.

The first gathering is from 8:00 to 9:00 to mark the World Tobacco Day, and the second is from 10:00 to 11:00 organized by the Youth Organization “Princip” to celebrate the birthday of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Pink TV owner Zeljko Mitrovic, as well as to celebrate five years since the inauguration of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The third gathering is from 12:00 to 13:00, organized by a natural person on behalf of the Civic Initiative “Because it concerns me” on the occasion of remembering the deaths of civilian victims in the previous war in the Prijedor area,” the Prijedor Police said in a statement.

The third gathering marks the Day of White Ribbons, the memory of 3,176 killed Prijedor civilians.

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.