ACTION ALERT:Call to action

URGENT CALL TO ACTION!

The Institute for Research of Genocide-Canada (IGC) calls upon all members of the public to join in the new campaign to pressure ArcelorMittal to open up Omarska Concentration Camp memorial center to all 365 days a year. ArcelorMittal is the current owner of Omarska and when they purchased it they promised to maintain the sight and create a memorial for the victims and survivors of the Omarska Concentration Camp. This promise was made in 2005 but seven years later however, ArcelorMittal has postponed their plans to make this memorial and more recently has refused everyone entrance to Omarska.

In 1992 Omarska was a place of sadism, death, torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, rape, enslavement and other unimaginable things where in the span of 3 and a half months over 7,000 non-Serbs were detained and out of that number it is estimated that between 4,000 to 5,000 individuals perished. The United Nations declared it a death camp and after reports comparing Omarska to Auschwitz came out, the international community forced it to close down on August 6th , 1992, three months after opening.

Twenty years on, ArcelorMittal is attempting to hide the truth of the gruesome events that Bosniaks and Croats suffered by refusing the public entrance to the former camp. By hiding the truth they are supporting the denial of the events that occurred in Omarska which caters to the views of the current Mayor of Prijedor, Marko Pavlovic. With the ongoing denial of Omarska being a concentration/death camp in that region, ArcelorMittal is also supporting the war criminals that tortured, killed, raped and massacred innocent people.

Concentration camp memorial centers are significant for history, memory and education so future generations can learn from the past and there is no better way to learn than to visit places such as these. Thus we call on the public to get informed, get involved and pressure ArcerolMittal to start supporting the concentration camp survivors instead of the war criminals. Please visit the following for more information about this campaign.

Facebook Page ‘ArcelorMittal Make my Birthday Wish Come True’: Please visit, like and share: https://www.facebook.com/ArcelorMittalMakeMyBirthdayWishComeTrue

Watch the video campaign ‘ArcelorMittal Make my Birthday Wish Come True’/ share/get involved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOihCIvsi9M

Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/arcelor-mittal-a-uk-based-company-the-largest-steel-producer-in-the-world-give-victims-access-to-omarska-concentration-camp-arcelor-mittal-purchased

To learn more about the Concentration camp survivors and the events that occurred there join their Facebook group ‘Cuvari Omarske/Guardians of Omarska’: https://www.facebook.com/groups/336748579716975/

For more information about ArcelorMittals refusal to allow public access to Omarska: http://ictj.org/news/shadow-london-%E2%80%9Corbit%E2%80%9D-bosnia-steel-blood-and-suppression-memory