Russia vetoed a draft UN resolution Wednesday July 08,2015 that would have recognized the Srebrenica Massacre as genocide, triggering warnings the bitter diplomatic wrangling could spark renewed violence
The Russian veto was welcomed by Serbia`s president, who said it was "a great day for Serbia," but the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica group accused Moscow of "supporting criminals, those who killed our children."
Serbia and the Bosnian Serbs had called on Russia to use its veto power to block the resolution, arguing that it was "anti-Serb" because it only highlighted killings in the final months of a war that left 100,000 people dead
Britain had put forward the text to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys and men by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, Europe`s worst atrocity since World War II.
Angola, China, Nigeria and Venezuela abstained from the vote at the 15-member Security Council while 10 other countries voted in favor of the text that also condemned genocide denial.
Russia`s veto is "heartbreaking" to the victims` families and "a further stain on this council`s record," US Ambassador Samantha Power said
Note
Srebrenica Massacre refers to the Genocidal killings of more than 8000 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War
Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic overran the UN-protected safe haven of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995 in what was to become one of the darkest chapters of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Mladic`s troops brushed aside the lightly armed Dutch UN peacekeepers and loaded thousands of Muslim men and boys onto trucks before executing them in a nearby forest and burying them in mass graves.
The Russian veto was welcomed by Serbia`s president, who said it was "a great day for Serbia," but the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica group accused Moscow of "supporting criminals, those who killed our children."
Serbia and the Bosnian Serbs had called on Russia to use its veto power to block the resolution, arguing that it was "anti-Serb" because it only highlighted killings in the final months of a war that left 100,000 people dead
Britain had put forward the text to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys and men by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, Europe`s worst atrocity since World War II.
Angola, China, Nigeria and Venezuela abstained from the vote at the 15-member Security Council while 10 other countries voted in favor of the text that also condemned genocide denial.
Russia`s veto is "heartbreaking" to the victims` families and "a further stain on this council`s record," US Ambassador Samantha Power said
Note
Srebrenica Massacre refers to the Genocidal killings of more than 8000 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War
Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic overran the UN-protected safe haven of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995 in what was to become one of the darkest chapters of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Mladic`s troops brushed aside the lightly armed Dutch UN peacekeepers and loaded thousands of Muslim men and boys onto trucks before executing them in a nearby forest and burying them in mass graves.
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