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Article: Dutch Government Quits After Report On Serb Massacre; Srebrenica Inquiry Faults Troops' Role
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- The Washington Post
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- April 17, 2002
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The Dutch government resigned today in response to a damning
report on the slaying in 1995 of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims who
were taken from the U.N.-designated "safe area" of Srebrenica and
shot by Bosnian Serbs while ostensibly under the protection of Dutch
troops.
In the single most brutal chapter of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia --
a moment that discredited all the international peacekeepers involved
-- a small, lightly armed Dutch peacekeeping contingent essentially
stepped aside as Bosnian Serbs overran the enclave.
The blue-helmeted Dutch troops, operating under an ill-defined
U.N. mandate and unable to get military backing from their allies,
including the United States, to deter the ...