Russia: Sorry, Srebrenica Was Not a Genocide

Russia has vetoed a UN resolution that would have condemned the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a "crime of genocide." The Security Council put the resolution to a vote today despite appeals from Russia and China not to vote because of divisions in the UN's most powerful body. The vote was 10-1 with four abstentions. Two international courts have called the slaughter by Bosnian Serbs of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys (who had sought refuge at what was supposed to be a UN-protected site) genocide. But Russia, Serbia, and the Bosnian Serbs denounced the resolution as divisive. (More Srebrenica stories.)