The UN General Assembly will vote
Thursday on a resolution to declare July 11 as an international
day of remembrance for the genocide in Bosnia's Srebrenica,
which is strongly opposed by Serbia and Bosnian Serbs but
supported by major Western powers. The massacre of Muslim men
and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 during the
country's bloody inter-ethnic conflict is widely regarded as
Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, and has become a
symbol of "ethnic cleansing." International courts and tribunals
in Bosnia and Serbia have sentenced nearly 50 people for crimes
connected to the Srebrenica massacre, including Radovan Karadzic
and Ratko Mladic, who received life sentences for genocide and
other crimes.
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