UN set to vote on commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica genocide annually

The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution seeking to designate July 11 as the "International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica."The UN is scheduled to vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniaks by Bosnian Serbs, a prospect that has sparked vehement opposition from Serbs who fear it will brand them all as"genocidal" supporters of the mass killing.

The Srebrenica killings were the bloody crescendo of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, which came after the breakup of the then-nation of Yugoslavia and unleashed nationalist passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country's two other main ethnic populations, Croats and Bosniaks. Dodik has made several such threats in the past to have the Serb-controlled territories secede from Bosnia and join with neighbouring Serbia. He and some other Bosnian Serb officials are under US and British sanctions partly for jeopardising a US peace plan that ended the Bosnian war.

Menachem Rosensaft, the son of Holocaust survivors who is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, said on Wednesday that designating July 11 as the official day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide"is a moral and legal imperative."

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