Today the UN votes on the 'Srebrenica resolution'

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, MAY 23 - The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on a resolution to declare July 11 as an international day of remembrance for the genocide in Bosnia's Srebrenica, which is strongly opposed by Serbia and Bosnian Serbs but supported by major Western powers. The massacre of Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 during the country's bloody inter-ethnic conflict is widely regarded as Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, and has become a symbol of "ethnic cleansing." International courts and tribunals in Bosnia and Serbia have sentenced nearly 50 people for crimes connected to the Srebrenica massacre, including Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who received life sentences for genocide and other crimes. (ANSA).