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UNITED NATIONS/SARAJEVO (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly declared July 11 an international day of remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide in a vote on Thursday that survivors branded as historic and Serbs as a failure, reflecting deep ethnic divisions in Bosnia. The massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in 1995, after the U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces, took place during the Balkan wars that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia and was seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. The resolution, initiated by Germa...

The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a resolution establishing July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, despite strong Serbian opposition.

The United Nations General Assembly declared July 11 an international day of remembrance of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in a resolution on Thursday that was strongly opposed by Serbia and Bosnian Serbs.

Draft resolution also calls for condemning atrocities against Bosnians and declaring July 11 the International Day of Remembrance for victims.

Decades-old tensions over the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims during the Bosnian war have been inflamed by a proposed U.N. resolution that would recognize the event as an act of genocide. Thousands of Serbs marched in protest against the resolution Thursday in Banja Luka, capital of Republika Srpska, the ethnic Serbian entity within Bosnia-Herzegovina, shortly…