Utter disgrace!

[Keysersoze]

Anger over Dutch Srebrenica medal
Protest in Assen, the Netherlands
Protesters expressed their outraged in Assen
Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have criticised the Dutch government for giving an insignia to UN peacekeepers who served in the city.

They said honouring Dutch troops who were charged with protecting the Muslim Bosnian enclave was "scandalous".

Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb forces who overran Srebrenica in July 1995.

The Dutch government said the troops deserved recognition for their behaviour in difficult circumstances.

Presenting the insignia to some 800 soldiers from the Dutch battalion (Dutchbat) at a military barrack in Assen, Dutch Defence Minister Henk Kamp said they had been unjustly seen in an unfavourable light.

He said they were sent to Srebrenica on a mission impossible - without enough weaponry - and a limited mandate.

'Humiliating decision'

But survivors and relatives of the victims - who held protest rallies in The Hague, Assen and Bosnia's capital Sarajevo - condemned the move.

Dutch soldiers receive a decoration at a military base in Assen
Some 800 former Dutch peacekeepers received the award

"This is a scandalous, shameful and humiliating decision. Victims and their families are additionally humiliated and offended," said Munira Subasic, head of the Srebrenica Women association.

"They [the Dutch peacekeepers] allowed Bosnian Serb troops to slaughter 10,000 people. Shame be on them," she said.

Srebrenica survivors are demanding an apology - and are suing the Dutch state for failing to protect them.

Many people say there still needs to be a proper political debate - over where the responsibility - really lies, the BBC's Geraldine Coughlan in The Hague says.

The government in the Netherlands resigned in 2001 after accepting partial blame for the genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6207254.stm

 

[Keysersoze]

Monday, 27 January, 2003, 13:19 GMT
Srebrenica inquiry blames Dutch leaders
Relatives of Srebrenica dead demanding a Dutch inquiry
Relatives are angry about the role of the peacekeepers


By Geraldine Coughlan
BBC correspondent at The Hague

A public inquiry carried out by a Dutch parliamentary commission has concluded that the Dutch Government held political responsibility for the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995.

The enclave of Srebrenica was a designated United Nations safe haven under the protection of Dutch peacekeepers until it was taken over by Serb forces.

Forensic scientist examines mass grave
More than 7,000 died in the massacre
The inquiry's report also criticised the UN for failing to protect the Muslim civilians.

This is not the first report on the Srebrenica massacre but it is the first public inquiry into the tragedy.

The report concludes that the 200 lightly armed Dutch soldiers in the enclave were no match for Serb forces.

It says that the French general, Bernard Janvier, who was in charge of UN troops in the region, was wrong to refuse to allow air strikes to support the Dutch peacekeepers.

Compensation question

The report also says political responsibility for the tragedy lies with the government of former prime minister Wim Kok, as he sent Dutch troops to Srebrenica without a clear mandate.

Wim Kok's centre-left cabinet resigned en masse last April after an official report by the Dutch War Archives Institute drew similar conclusions.

The report holds the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his general, Ratko Mladic, ultimately responsible for the mass murder at Srebrenica.

It also urges the Dutch Government to take a stand in bringing them to justice.

It now remains to be seen whether the report's conclusions can pave the way for claims for compensation for some of the survivors of Srebrenica.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2698403.stm

 

[InsightDubai]

there has been a quarter a million deaths of muslims in bosnia. I read every moth a 12,000 bodies discovered in graveyards of muslism children and women. Funny how the global news agencies deliberately refure to add up the figures. Just search cnn for news and you will observe that every time they discovery killing fields in bosnia of tens of thousands the original number never goes to beyond 7000.

Thats because US was the only country denying the ethnic genicide of muslims in the heart of europe. US vetoed every nato strike on Bosnia untill the horrible video of severed head of muslims by the christian serbs were shown live on BBC.

From the top of the mountian leading to the base,a display of headless corpes of muslims were shown live on BBC which send shouk waves around the globe. The BBC programme Panorama traced the serbs Militray leaders responsible of the massacre of Muslims depicting the massacre of Msul;ism by the Christ's crusade in Jerusalem when the entire population was put to the sword.

The mass Murders of Muslims in Bosnia are still hiding in the churches on the mountinas in serbia, which are usually located in remote locations. The wanted military terrorits are still hiding in remote christian monastries and are being protected by the Chrsitina religious Leaders. The BBC programe ends by saying "Why didint the war on terror start then?" [I wish i new the name of the episode, i saw it 2 years back]

Do some research that uptill now 250,000 muslism bodies have been so far found in Bosnia alone and so many times new mass graveyards have also been found in bosnia but the original number of 7,000 never goes up? Why?

 

[ahf_nuke1]

Yeah whatever you are saying is true but no one can change it unless we want to and if we want to than we have to. In Sebernica many muslims were killed UN or US will never accept it as GENOCIDE because if they do they have to ACT LEGALLY under UN charter to save those lives at that and to punish those who were involved in that thing. Leave the Sebernica for a moment they never recognized RAWANDA genocide as a GENOCIDE untill 6 weeks after more than half million got killed than they said 'ohh we were mistaken its genocide' and guess wht these beyatches they run to IRAQ to save people from getting killed by Saddam and they kill more than whatever Saddam have killed and they still say OPERATION ENDURING IRAQI FREEDOM ..its all B.S my friends we neeed to wake up or we will be sleeepin n jus sleeepin n seein all tht shyt happenin ..

 

[Adux]

InsightDubai,

Can you provide credible links, 250,000 is quite a large number

 

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InsightDubai,

Can you provide credible links, 250,000 is quite a large number

For bosnia it certainly isnt!