| Series Title | DutchNews.nl |
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| Series Details | 27.06.17 |
| Publication Date | 27/06/2017 |
| Content Type | News |
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Further information: The 300 men and boys were inside the Dutch military base in the Muslim enclave when it was over-tun by Bosnian Serb forces. Some 6,000 surviving relative sued the Dutch state following the death of their menfolk. However, the Netherlands was not found to be responsible for the death of 7,000 plus other men and boys who were outside the compound. The court said it would have been impossible for Dutch soldiers to have protected them when the Bosnian Serb forces began to round them up. The Dutch soldiers in Srebrenica were part of a peacekeeping mission from the United Nations and had been charged with protecting the Muslim enclave. After it was overrun by Bosnian Serbs' forces, an agreement was made on evacuating the some 30,000 Muslims who had fled to the area. The Dutch state was found partly liable for the death of over 300 Muslim men who died in the massacre of Srebrenica in 1995 by an court of appeal in the Netherlands. It upheld a lower court ruling from 2014. |
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| Source Link | http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/06/dutch-state-is-partly-liable-for-300-srebrenica-deaths-appeal-court-says/ |
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| Countries / Regions | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Southeastern Europe |
