Netherlands partially responsible for Srebrenica massacre, court rules
By DW
28 July 2019 |
10:36 am
The Dutch Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Dutch UN peacekeepers had failed to protect 350 people in Bosnia in 1995. The judges found however that the Dutch government was only 10% liable for the atrocity.
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