Bosnia massacre: Dutch government apologizes to troops sent to Bosnia for failing to protect Muslims
Dutch government has apologized to hundreds of veterans sent to defend Srebrenica during Bosnian war. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the troops were equipped with little defense capability to prevent massacre in Srebrenica & were thrown into the war for an impossible task.
In July 1995 Bosnian Serb troops massacred about 8,000 Muslim men after Dutch army was defeated. Earlier Dutch government insisted that failure to provide air support was in fact the fault of United Nations.
But speaking to veterans at a military base in the central Netherlands on Saturday Prime Minister Mark Rutte acknowledged that Dutch Beat III peacekeepers had struggled because your mandate your equipment & your mission The military aid we received was insufficient. This ultimately made it impossible to successfully complete the mission.
Today I apologize to all men & women of Dutch Beat III on behalf of the Government of the Netherlands PM told the veterans. From all of you here & from those who are not with us today.
He praised Dutch Beat III saying that it continued its mission even in most difficult of circumstances which was not possible.
In addition to the amnesty troops stationed in Srebrenica were awarded a bronze medal by Defense Minister Kajisa Olungreen.
During a genocidal campaign by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 thousands of Muslims fled to a UN safe haven in Bosnian town of Srebrenica. They were protected by very few Dutch soldiers. Soldiers were later captured by Bosnian Serb soldiers because of their weak defense capabilities.
After the Dutch forces surrendered Bosnian Serb troops under General Ratko Mladic set aside Muslim men and boys between the ages of 12 & 77 & announced that they would be interrogated.
Over the next 5 days Ratko Mladic troops killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims & buried them in mass graves. Serbia has always denied that killings were part of a genocidal campaign but has acknowledged it as a crime.
Prime Minister Rotte pardon comes a year after a report made several recommendations to help 850 Dutch Beat III troops. Many of these soldiers suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after war.
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تازہ خبر حکومت پاکستان میں تردید کردی کسی پاکستانی وفد نے اسرائیل کا دورا نہیں کیا۔وزارت خارجہ
اسرائیل کا دورا کرنے والے وفد میں کون کون شامل تھا تفصیلات لنک میں۔
کروکر مچلی گوادر میں لوگوں کی زندگیاں بدل رہی ہے ایک مچھلی ایک کروڑ روپے کی
تیل پاکستان میں 30روپے مہنگا بھارت میں 10روپے سستا ہوگیا تفصیل۔
In 2019 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the Netherlands was partially responsible for the deaths of about 350 people in massacre. According to the ruling Netherlands expelled them from its military base knowing they were in grave danger of being tortured & killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
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