MOSCOW, July 1 (UPI) -- A UN draft resolution, proposed by the British delegation, severely criticizing the Serbian role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre was rebuked and deemed "divisive" by the Russian government Tuesday.
July marks the twenty-year anniversary of when Serb forces systematically killed over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men in three days as part of the 1992-1995 Balkan war, which split up Yugoslavia. Many observers and journalists saw the Srebrenica genocide, in particular, as the darkest chapter in the European continent since the Holocaust, a claim Russia -- one of Serbia's staunchest allies -- has long disputed.