22 years ago, the Serbian authorities in Prijedor ordered the homes of Bosniaks and Croats in Prijedor to mark their homes with white sheets and to wear white ribbons on their sleeves in public places. It was followed by extermination, murder and persecution.
The order to have non-Serb homes and their property labeled in Prijedor was issued by the Crisis Staff of municipality Prijedor. President of the Crisis Staff Milomir Stakić was convicted to 40 years in jail in the Hague Tribunal. In the case ‘Prijedor’, it is stated that during the war, a planned deportation of around 20.000 non-Serb inhabitants from this municipality took place. The government of the RS formed a network of concentration camps in this area, among which are the notorious Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje.
According to the judgment at the Hague Tribunal, the former President of the Crisis Staff of municipality Prijedor Milomir Stakić is responsible for the killing of more than 1.500 people in this municipality, including the murder of around 120 men in the concentration camp Keraterm. Stakić is also responsible for the execution of about 200 people at Korićani cliffs, on mount Vlašić on 21 August 1992.
The International Day of White Ribbons will be marked on 31 May in Prijedor, as well as all over the world, and will once again remind on the crimes that occurred on the non-Serbian population in this city in the conflict in B&H during the early 1990’s.
(Source: klix.ba)
