U.N. Declares July 11 Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day

Source: U.S. News and World ReportThe United Nations General Assembly declared July 11 an international day of remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide in a vote on Thursday that survivors branded as historic and Serbs as a failure, reflecting deep ethnic divisions in Bosnia. The massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in 1995, after the U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces, was widely seen at the time as Europe's worst atrocity since World...