The Netherlands’ Supreme Court ruled today that the government of the Netherlands is responsible for failing to protect three Bosniak men killed in Srebrenica in 1995.
Hasan Nuhanovic and the family of Rizo Mustafic, who have been pursuing the case for the past 11 years, argued that the Dutch soldiers did not do all they could to protect their relatives from the Bosnian Serb Army which overran the Netherlands-run UN ‘safe area’ of Srebrenica.
The relatives of the three Bosniaks, who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces after the Dutch peacekeepers made them leave a UN compound where they had taken refuge, can now claim compensation from the Netherlands.
