February 24, 2009, Washington, DC: A multimedia exhibit on the Prijedor genocide will be shown on Capitol Hill Thursday.

The exhibit, titled “Prijedor: Lives from the Bosnian Genocide,” includes documentary artifacts, photographs, and first-person survivor accounts chronicling the massacres that took the lives of thousands of Bosniaks and Croats in the city. According to the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center (IDC), around 5,200 Bosniaks and Croats from the Prijedor are missing or were killed during the massacre period in 1992.

The opening reception for the exhibit, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, will feature a speech by Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.), as well comments by Dr. Benajmin Moore of Fontbonne University and Amir Karadzic of the Union of Citizens of the Municipality of Prijedor. It will be held on the 2nd floor the Rayburn Office Building of the US Capitol Complex, located on Independence Ave. SE in Washington.

The event was organized with help from the Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH), a strategic partner of The Advocacy Project (AP).

For more information or to RSVP, please contact BAACBH Executive Director Elmina Kulasic.