Srebrenica Massacre: a Dutch fairy story

by W H Oxley

In September 2013, after a test case had been crawling its way through the appeal system for years, the Dutch Supreme Court finally ruled that the Netherlands Government was responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men expelled from the Dutch compound into the arms of the waiting Serbs.

  General Mladic, the Serb commander, was eventually apprehended and is awaiting trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, located, ironically, in Holland.

  No Dutch military personnel were disciplined, and it did not affect the promotion prospects of those involved in the Srebrenica debacle.

  The UN, the organisation that sent a shepherdess and a flock of sheep to guard against wolves, has never been held to blame.

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