CITY OF CHARLOTTE (NC) PROCLAIMS SREBRENICA REMEMBRANCE DAY

City of Charlotte, North Carolina

Proclamation

City of Charlotte (NC) Srebrenica Genocide Proclamation

WHEREAS, North Carolina his home to more than 10,000 Bosniak Americans including thousands in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, who have successfully integrated into the Charlotte community and are working towards a better future; and

WHEREAS, the Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB) is an umbrella organization representing Bosniaks in the United States and Canada; and

WHEREAS, July 11, 2010 is commemorated as the 15th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre, in which at least 8,372 innocent Bosniak civilians were summarily executed and 30,000 were expelled from their homes in the worst atrocity in Europe since the Holocaust; and

WHEREAS, July 11, 2010 will be known as Srebrenica Remembrance Day; and

WHEREAS, the anniversary raises awareness of the tragic suffering of the Bosnian people and honors and remembers those who died as a result of the policies of ethnic cleansing and aggression; and

WHEREAS, both, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives passed resolutions in 2005 acknowledging the genocid ethat the Serbian forces perpetrated in Srebrenica, and all of Bosnia from 1992 to 1995:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Anthony R. Foxx, Mayor of Charlotte, do hereby proclaim the week of July 11, 2010 as

"BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TRIBUTE WEEK"

in Charlotte and commend its observance to all citizens.

WITNESS MY HAND and the official Seal of the City of Charlotte

SEAL MAYOR's Signature