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Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (Defence, VVD) has represented the Netherlands apologized to the families of three Bosnian men in 1995 died after they were forced to leave the military base in Srebrenica. “The State regrets that Mr. Mustafic and Mr Nuhanovic had to leave the compound,” the minister wrote in a statement. The relatives have received compensation. The amount thereof is kept secret.
Dutch Dutchbat soldiers were in 1995 on behalf of the United Nations responsible for protecting the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in an area dominated by Serbs of Bosnia. On July 11, 1995, two weeks from twenty years ago, under the enclave was overrun by Bosnian Serb soldiers. The Dutchbat electrician, Rizo Mustafic, and the father and brother of the Dutchbat interpreter Hasan Nuhanovic were certainly among the 7,000 Muslim men were killed. They had taken refuge at the Dutch UN soldiers, but who had sent them.
Relatives had filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government in 2006 and in 2012. The Hague court said in the State indeed liable is for the death of the three. A first “offer” of $ 20,000 per victim, being the survivors off.
Netherlands is rarely willing to apologize for tragedies of the past, precisely for fear of compensation claims. Last year, Minister Hennis unlikely to pose with Bosnian survivors and it apologized. Now that an agreement has been reached on the compensation, these excuses are announced to the world
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