Dutch state partly liable for deaths of 350 Muslims in Bosnia war: Court

‘A Dutch appeals court has ruled that the state was partly responsible for the deaths of some 350 Bosnian Muslim men in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
The court declared the ruling in The Hague on Tuesday, ordering the Dutch state to pay some 30 percent of any damages to the victims.
“The court finds that the Dutch state acted unlawfully,” Judge Gepke Dulek said in the ruling, which upholds a 2014 ruling by a lower court.
“The conclusion is that the Dutchbat (Dutch peacekeepers) knew that during the evacuations by the Bosnian Serbs to separate the Muslim men and boys there was a real risk they could face inhumane treatment or execution,” she said.
The ruling confirmed that the Dutch soldiers had also facilitated the separation of the men and the boys among the refugees.
The 350 deaths were part of the July 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed and between 25,000 and 30,000 Muslim women were forcibly transferred and abused.’
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