Netherlands apologies to survivors of Srebrenica genocide

Netherlands apologies to survivors of Srebrenica genocide

• The Netherlands yesterday offered its apologies for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide.
•  For the first time since the 1995 massacre, Dutch Defense Minister KajsaOllongren apologized to survivors for the Dutch peacekeepers' failure to prevent the killings.
• The Srebrenica killings came at the tail end of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
• Bosnian Serb forces overran the Dutch UN protection zone at Srebrenica and massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
• The slaughter, judged an act of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, was the worst single atrocity of the war, in which about 100,000 people died.

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Published date : 13 Jul 2022 03:46PM