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The 1995 Srebrenica genocide will in future be marked around the world on July 11, following a vote by United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. The “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration” for the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were massacred was sponsored by Germany and Rwanda but encountered opposition from Serbia and other countries. The day is to be officially marked from next year, 40 years after the event. “Our initiative is about honouring the memory of the victims and supporting the survivors who continue to live with the scars of that fateful time,” German ambass…