UN votes for Srebrenica remembrance day

The UN General Assembly has voted to create an annual remembrance day for the Srebrenica genocide of 1995, where Serbian forces killed around 8,000 Muslim men and teenagers. July 11th had been chosen for the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. They also condemn any denial of the genocide and urge nations to "preserve the established facts."

Serbias 🇷🇸 President Aleskandar Vucic said he would "fight with all my strength 💪 and heart" to block  🚫 the initiative at the UN, while their Foreign Minister Marko Djuric promised to "protect our country from a long term stigma". Before the vote, church bells rang all across Serbia in protest. The Serbian Orthodox church explained they hoped this would unite Serbs in "prayers, serenity, mutual solidarity, and firmness in doing good, despite untrue and unjust accusations it faces at the UN."

What happened in Srebrenica?

Toward the end of the Bosnian war (100,000 deaths) on 11th of July 1995, Srebrenica was a UN protected enclave. Bosnian-Serb forces took hold of the town. In the following days, Serb forces separated 8,000 Bosniak men from their families and killed them. The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have both found this incident to be a genocide.

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