Srebrenica massacre: Netherlands apologizes after 27 years
By DW
12 July 2022 |
10:46 am
On the 27th anniversary of the atrocity that killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys, the Netherlands apologized to the relatives of victims and survivors for Dutch peacekeepers' failure to prevent the slaughter.
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