February 27, 2009, Washington, DC: The voices of victims from the Bosnian region of Prijedor were heard Thursday through a multimedia exhibit displayed at the US Capitol.

The exhibit, titled “Prijedor: Lives from the Bosnian Genocide,” included facts, photographs, and first-person survivor accounts of the concentration camps and massacres that took the lives of thousands of Bosniaks and Croats in 1992. The event was attended by US Rep. Russ Carnahan, (D-Mo.), who chairs the Bosnian Caucus in Congress; professors from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, who put together the exhibit; and members of the Bosnian diaspora from St. Louis.

“This exhibit vividly captures the suffering of people who did not deserve to die,” said Elmina Kulasic, Executive Director of the Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH), which organized the event.

BAACBH is a strategic partner of The Advocacy Project (AP).

More than 4,000 people were killed at Prijedor during the war of agression in the Balkans, but the victims were buried in unmarked graves, and few people know their stories.

“This is an important story,” Mr. Carnahan said. “It’s important that we teach that survivors have a story to tell. Victims that are no longer with us have a story to tell. The whole world has something to learn from these tragedies.”

Mr. Carnahan is supporting a resolution in the US House of Representatives that encourages constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina and continued US involvement in the region.