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IGK: DECLARE OMARSKA CAMP PROTECTED MONUMENT

SARAJEVO, AUGUST 8 (ONASA) – The Genocide Research Institute of Canada (IGK) supports the proposal of prof. Dr. David Pettigrew, a member of the IGK International Expert Team, that the Omarska war camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina be declared a protected national monument.
– The social, ethical, political, anthropological, philosophical implications of the genocide in Prijedor, when science has proven it, are so diverse and inexhaustible that as many new and new texts should be written about them and fit them into the context of real events. Because the genocide in Prijedor is not a historical topic or a topic of history. On the contrary, the entire human future, especially European, and especially the Balkan future, must be forced to determine itself according to the crime of genocide in Prijedor. And that determination of human and civilizational future in the name of truth and justice, not revenge, is impossible without declaring the Omarska camp, a symbol of all suffering, torture and murder, all concentration camps of death in the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a protected national, state monument. IGC statement.
The Institute is convinced that the new High Representative in BiH will take concrete measures to protect the rights of victims.
No one has the right to prohibit victims and witnesses of genocide from remembering crime, the right to truth and justice. Until the just struggle of the victims and witnesses of the genocide is respected, there will be no reconciliation and a happier common future for all the citizens of Prijedor. The humiliation of the victims of genocide is a continuation of the genocide, it is said at the end of the announcement of the Institute from Canada. (end)