The UN General Assembly’s designation of July 11 as the official international day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide is a moral and legal imperative,

The UN General Assembly’s designation of July 11 as the official international day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide is a moral and legal imperative, First, because the thousands of Bosniak — that is, Bosnian Muslim — men and boys who were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb paramilitary thugs in the name of a pan-Serbian supremacist ideology deserve to have their death and the manner of their death commemorated by the international community every bit as much as the Jewish victims of the Holocaust or the Tutsi victims of the Rwanda genocide. Second, because a succession of panels of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have unequivocally held that the massacres at Srebrenica constituted genocide as a matter of uncontroverted international law. And third, because Srebrenica was supposed to be a safe area under UN protection and instead, the Dutch UN peacekeeping force callously and shamefully abandoned the Bosniaks who had sought shelter there to be murdered on the UN’s watch.