Commemorating the Prijedor Massacre on White Armband Day 2019

That the Parliament observes White Armband Day, which takes place every year on 31 May, during which white armbands are worn to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing campaign of Prijedor, northern Bosnia-Herzegovina, of Bosniak, Croatian and any other non-Serb civilians by Bosnian Serb authorities on 31 May 1992; commemorates that, from that day onwards, all non-Serb citizens were forced by to mark their houses with white flags or bedsheets and to wear white armbands when leaving the house, marking themselves for extermination; regrets that this resulted in the ethnic cleansing of 94% of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population from the Prijedor municipality where 3,173 people, including 102 children, were killed during the war and nearly 31,000 people were detained in concentration camps such as Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje, while 53,000 were forced to flee; acknowledges that, alongside the mass murder, a campaign of terror, violence and mass rape was conducted against non-Serb citizens; recognises that, in 2013, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) uncovered one of the biggest mass graves in the Prijedor municipality at the Tomasica mines, where over 600 bodies had lain encased in clay for 20 years; notes with concern the refusal of local authorities in Prijedor to permit the construction of a memorial in the town centre for the victims of the massacre, the recent destruction of a memorial to Croats killed during the war in the village of Brisevo in the Prijedor area and expressions by Bosnian people of increasing concern regarding the attitude of Republika Srpska authorities towards the existence of Bosnia, and encourages people to learn about the second biggest massacre in the Bosnian War after the Srebrenica Genocide and remember why everyone must ensure that none of these events ever happen again.