On Tomorrow's UN Resolution on Srebrenica

Tomorrow, the UN General Assembly is expected to take up a draft resolution on the Srebrenica genocide in an enormous week for international humanitarian law

Tomorrow morning, New York time, the UN General Assembly will debate a draft resolution that would designate July 11^th “the International Day of Remembrance for the Genocide in Srebrenica”. The resolution also does several other things: it condemns genocide denial and the glorification of war crimes and criminals, calls for the location and identification of the remaining victims, and, critically for the entire world this week, reminds states of their obligations under the Genocide Convention. Germany and Rwanda are the two main sponsors of the resolution, but dozens of others have joined them, including Albania, Belgium, Chile, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey and the United States. The Srebrenica genocide resolution vote comes during one of the most dramatic weeks in the history of international humanitarian law: on Monday, the ICC announced that it was seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC is the permanent successor of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or ICTY, the court that found that genocide was committed at Srebrenica.