· Bosnia calls in ambassador to protest at medals award
· Troops were part of UN force meant to protect city
Ian Traynor in Zagreb
Wednesday December 6, 2006
The Guardian
The leadership of Bosnia protested bitterly to the Netherlands yesterday over the awards of medals to Dutch peacekeepers who stood by and did nothing at the infamous 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.
Haris Silajdzic, a former prime minister and a member of the three-man Bosnian presidency, said he had called in the Dutch ambassador in Sarajevo to demand an explanation for the military ceremony that was conducted at a barracks in eastern Holland on Monday.
Henk Kamp, the Dutch defence minister, unveiled a plaque at the barracks praising the troops who failed to act to prevent the atrocity at Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, seized the enclave in eastern Bosnia, separated the males from the women and children, and then organised the mass murder of almost 8,000 men over 10 days in July 1995.
The shocking episode constituted the worst single atrocity of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and the only event in the 42-month war that the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has categorised as genocide.
Gen. Mladic has been charged with genocide but has been a fugitive for 11 years.
(MORE) http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,,1964964,00.html
Please also see:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) http://www.un.org/icty
· Troops were part of UN force meant to protect city
Ian Traynor in Zagreb
Wednesday December 6, 2006
The Guardian
The leadership of Bosnia protested bitterly to the Netherlands yesterday over the awards of medals to Dutch peacekeepers who stood by and did nothing at the infamous 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.
Haris Silajdzic, a former prime minister and a member of the three-man Bosnian presidency, said he had called in the Dutch ambassador in Sarajevo to demand an explanation for the military ceremony that was conducted at a barracks in eastern Holland on Monday.
Henk Kamp, the Dutch defence minister, unveiled a plaque at the barracks praising the troops who failed to act to prevent the atrocity at Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, seized the enclave in eastern Bosnia, separated the males from the women and children, and then organised the mass murder of almost 8,000 men over 10 days in July 1995.
The shocking episode constituted the worst single atrocity of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and the only event in the 42-month war that the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has categorised as genocide.
Gen. Mladic has been charged with genocide but has been a fugitive for 11 years.
(MORE) http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,,1964964,00.html
Please also see:
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) http://www.un.org/icty