Serbs Tell UN: Srebrenica Resolution Would Widen Bosnia Divisions

Serbia warned that a resolution commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which the United Nations Security Council is due to discuss on Tuesday, would only widen ethnic divides in neighboring Bosnia. The British-drafted resolution condemns what it describes as the genocide at Srebrenica and any denial of the genocide. That has angered Serbia and Bosnian Serbs, who have branded it as "anti-Serb" and sent a letter of protest to the United Nations. On July 11, 1995, toward...

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