JUDSON UNIVERSITY CANCELS MUSLIM GENOCIDE SURVIVOR’S TICKETS WHILE PUBLIC SALES CONTINUE FOR EVENT HONORING U.S.-SANCTIONED GENOCIDE DENIER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 30, 2026
Media Contact: A. Hadzic, info@jednabih.com
JUDSON UNIVERSITY APPEARS TO CANCEL MUSLIM TICKET HOLDERS WHILE PUBLIC SALES CONTINUE FOR EVENT HONORING U.S.-SANCTIONED GENOCIDE DENIER
Survivors, faith leaders, and Illinois advocates demand that Judson University rescind its "Leadership and Democracy Award" to Milorad Dodik, who arrived in Chicago today, April 30th.
WHAT: Emergency protest organized by JednaBiH / OneBiH and coalition partners
WHEN: Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 4:00 to 6:00 PM CST
WHERE: Judson University, 1151 North State Street, Elgin, IL
VISUALS: Bosnian flags, signs reading "Never Forget Srebrenica" and "Truth Over Denial," survivors and family members of Srebrenica victims, megaphones and chants, faith leaders standing in solidarity
SPEAKERS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW: Bosnian American survivors of the genocide and war, second-generation diaspora leaders, faith partners and BiH community organizers.
WHY THIS MATTERS:
Tonight, Judson University will present its inaugural Leadership and Democracy Award to Milorad Dodik.He was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for corruption and actively working to destabilize the Western Balkans in 2022. He was removed from office by Bosnian election authorities last year.
Dodik is criminally charged in Bosnia for denying the Srebrenica genocide, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically executed in 1995, a genocide affirmed by both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice. He has publicly called Srebrenica "a fabricated myth" and praised convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic as "a legend."
Photos confirm Dodik arrived in Chicago today and is expected at Judson tonight to receive the award.
The Bosnian American community in Illinois, joined by faith leaders and human rights advocates, will be present to demand the university rescind the award and refuse to honor genocide denial as democratic leadership.
JednaBiH / OneBiH is a Bosnian American advocacy network organizing across the United States to defend the truth of the genocide against Bosniaks and to oppose the rehabilitation of war criminals and their political allies.
