A court in the Netherlands has rejected a bid by survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre to win compensation for the failure of Dutch peacekeepers to protect the United Nations-designated safe haven.
The presiding judge at the court in The Hague ruled that the state could not be held Hague rules Dutch state not liable for Srebrenica deaths ...
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Dutch court hears Srebrenica case ... liable for the actions of the Dutch peacekeepers as they were operating in the eastern Bosnian town under a UN mandate. The applicants had claimed that the Dutch troops had forced them to leave the safety of their compound. Bosnian Serb forces, who had overrun the town, subsequently killed around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
(Deutsche Welle)
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