Symbolically, on the Day of the White Ribbons, Mayor Benjamina Karić awarded certificates of appreciation from the City of Sarajevo to brave and courageous people who contributed to the truth, justice, peace and freedom of Bosnia and Herzegovina and all its citizens with their uncompromising efforts.
Certificates of appreciation were presented to former ICTY prosecutor Alan Tieger, correspondent and film director who conveyed the truth about the siege of Sarajevo and violence against women Maggie O’Kane, American correspondent who was among the first to visit the detention camps in Prijedor and openly wrote about them, Roy Gutman.
Certificates of thanks from the City of Sarajevo were also presented to the war photographer who recorded the stories of the surviving witnesses with his camera, Fabrica Dekonicka, and to the former inmate of the Keraterm and Trnopolje concentration camps, who revealed the cruelty of the crimes committed in the camps, among them, Fikret Alić.
“Thank you for being with us when it was the most difficult and that today we all continue the fight for a better future and new generations together! Thank you for uncompromisingly conveying the truth about the crimes and aggression against this country to the world! This city never forgets its true friends,” said Karić, according to the City Administration.
