“Minister held air support against Srebrenica ‘- Dutch Newspaper

 
 

 

(AP) – AMSTERDAM (AP) – The Dutch former minister Joris Voorhoeve of Defence air support for Dutch troops stopped on the day that Muslim enclave of Srebrenica fell in 1995. That has told former Air Force officer Bart Wagenaar against De Telegraaf. Wagenaar was part of the crisis team in The Hague before, during and after the fall of Srebrenica.

Partly because the Dutch Dutchbat soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina had no air support could Bosnian Serb forces overflow the enclave and cause a bloodbath. That happened on 11 July 1995. ,, Tuesday afternoon July 11, 1995, Minister Voorhoeve held personally bombardments by F-16s against, ” Wagenaar told the newspaper. ,, A little after five o’clock I had to call UN envoy Yashushi Akashi and connect it with the minister. “Cancel all airstrikes,” I hear it Voorhoeve say. ”