Dutch Court Decision On Peacekeepers Shakes Up Humanitarian Law

radio free europe
July 13, 2011

By Irena Chalupa
In 1995, at the height of the war in Bosnia, the United Nations entrusted a lightly armed Dutch peacekeeping battalion with the task of protecting Srebrenica from a Bosnian Serb offensive.
The Bosnian Serbs, led by General Ratko Mladic, intimidated the Dutch battalion and gave guarantees of safety for the Bosnian Muslims. Mladic’s forces then proceeded to commit the greatest mass murder in Europe since World War II. The UN, the U.S. Congress, and two international courts have defined the killings as genocide....more...
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