It has been 20 years since Bosnian Serb forces killed and secretly buried more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys over three tragic days in Srebrenica. The awful event is the only legally recognized genocide to have taken place in Europe since World War II.
But as the world prepares to mark the incident, Russia has vetoed a UN resolution to acknowledge that genocide took place at Srebrenica. Its ambassador dismissed the resolution as a politically motivated attempt to blame one side for the terrible events that took place in the Balkans in the 1990s.
It is fairly clear that people do not like genocide—not enough to stop committing it, but just enough to protest vehemently if they or their ancestors are accused of it.
