Proclamation

PROCLAMATION
"Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day"
July 11, 2026

WHEREAS: The Canadian Federal Parliament passed two resolutions in 2010 and 2015 acknowledging the genocide that the Serbian forces perpetrated in Srebrenica and all of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995; and,

WHEREAS: July 11, 2026 will commemorate the 31th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide in which at least 8,372 innocent Bosniak civilians were executed and 30,000 were expelled from their homes in the worst atrocity in Europe since the Holocaust; and This
anniversary raises awareness of the tragic suffering of the Bosnian people and honours and remembers those who died as a policy of ethnic cleansing and aggression; and

WHEREAS: The Institute for Research of Genocide Canada is the organization representing the Bosniaks in Canada; and

THEREFORE: I, Drew Dilkens, Mayor of the City of Windsor, do hereby proclaim
July 11, 2026
"Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day
in the City of Windsor.