Co-sponsoring a U.N. resolution on the Srebrenica massacre, the Biden administration risks antagonizing high tensions in the Balkans.
General Assembly voted to recognize July 11 as “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica” to memorialize the infamous July 1995 Bosnian massacre which provoked
Yes votes, predictably, came from the West, including nearly all of NATO . The No side included Russia, China, and their friends such as Cuba, North Korea, and Syria. Although Iran, a strong backer of the Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-95 war, voted Yes, this is mitigated by the recent by Iran’s ambassador to Serbia denying that Srebrenica constituted a genocide. He added that the West had “a hidden agenda” in reviving this issue.
This isn’t just talk. Bosnia as established by the U.S.-authored Dayton Accords in late 1995 is a ramshackle affair, consisting of two entities, the mostly Muslim Federation and the Serbian Republic or Republika Srpska. The awkward Dayton solution, with its weak governance and endemic ethnic animosities and corruption, was intended to be a short-term fix only. Three decades later, it’s still in place, barely.
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