20 years after Srebrenica: Karremans will ‘sorry’ to hear from government – Elsevier

                 
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                             Tom Reijner
                         
                     
                 
 
                 
                     Jul 11, 2015

                 It is high time that Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert beats her fists on the table. And the government is now offering even finally publicly apologized to Dutchbat, Saturday exactly twenty years after the fall of the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.
             

Thom Karremans, former Dutchbat commander in Srebrenica, will “sorry” to hear from the Dutch government, he said in an interview with The Telegraph . According to Colonel BD (retired), the failed mission in 1995 to the credit of the then government.

Wooden gun

was exactly twenty years ago the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, which was protected occupied by the Dutch UN battalion Dutchbat, violently by the Bosnian Serb army.

In the fall of Srebrenica, which is extensively commemorated, arrived about seven thousand Muslim boys and -men killed. Karremans was heavily criticized for his role in the mission and was by relatives of three murdered Muslim men even accused of complicity in genocide

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But, says living in Spain Karremans, the failure of the mission was initiated by a rattling mandate and inadequate equipment. There was also a lack of ammunition, food and fuel. “We were sent out with a wooden gun and a pistol bang.”

Shame

There was a lack of coordination. “Defence Minister Joris Voorhoeve and General Hans Couzy said” Persevere. ” Seven times I asked for air support, seven times it was silent. The total lack of good will. “

Solutions were not put forward in order to avoid a looming humanitarian catastrophe” We’ll negotiate, “he heard. Or: “We see what we can do.” “Nothing so,” says Karremans. “I was a voice crying in the wilderness. The total lack of good will. Denmark had tanks, helicopter gunships America. I’ve never seen them. “

It puts the former commander’s Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD) recently have offered apologies to relatives of three Muslims who were expelled by Dutch soldiers from their base in Srebrenica and paid with death.

according to Karremans there not looked at the fate of the former battalion. He wants help arrives, referring to traumas. “Dutchbat to muddle but lost their self-esteem. A shame ‘

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