The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has upheld an earlier ruling that found the Dutch state partly liable for the deaths in 1995 of 350 Bosnian Muslim men who were expelled from a UN base and executed at Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has upheld an earlier ruling that found the Dutch state partly liable for the deaths in 1995 of 350 Bosnian Muslim men who were expelled from a UN base and executed at Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces. Several hundred outgunned Dutch peacekeeping troops had been assigned to protect a UN-designated "safe area" where thousands of Muslims had sought refuge from Bosnian Serb forces. The court set the liability of the Dutch state at 10pc, meaning that the survivors are likely to receive only a few thousand euro. The amount of the damages was not specified, but in an earlier case the Dutch state paid tens of thousands of euro to several survivorsIrish Independent

Source: Irish Independent July 20, 2019 01:41 UTC