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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
White Armband Day is a reminder of May 31, 1992, when the Crisis Staff of the Prijedor Municipality issued an order for the non-Serb population to mark their houses and apartments with white flags, while those moving around the city had to wear a white armband around their arms.
With a peaceful parade through the city's pedestrian zone, the International White Armband Day was marked in Prijedor today, in memory of the 3,176 killed residents of Prijedor and the surrounding area, 102 of whom were children, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.
White Armband Day is a reminder of May 31, 1992, when the Crisis Staff of the Prijedor Municipality, headed by the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), issued an order for the non-Serb population to mark their houses and apartments with white flags, while those moving around the city had to wear a white armband around their arms.
This year's commemoration was dignified and without incident, and participants laid the same number of roses in memory of the 102 murdered Bosniak children from Prijedor, forming a circle at the site where the monument should be built.
According to information from the victims' association, about 50 final verdicts have been issued so far for crimes in Prijedor and sentences of about 800 years in prison have been imposed.
About 30,000 non-Serbs from Prijedor passed through the Trnopolje, Omarska and Keraterm camps.
11 people were convicted in The Hague for crimes committed in the camps in the Prijedor area, and four more before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after their cases were transferred from The Hague Tribunal to domestic judicial institutions.
