Dutch cabinet resigns over Srebrenica

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Series Details 17.4.02, p10
Publication Date 17/04/2002
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The Dutch government resigned on 16 April 2002 in an act of atonement after the failure of Dutch peacekeepers to prevent the massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The government will stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new coalition is formed after elections on 15 May 2002.

In July 2011 the Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men during the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. The ruling may or may not affect cases being brought by relatives of other Srebrenica victims.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1935484.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1935484.stm
BBC News, 5.7.11: Dutch state 'responsible for three Srebrenica deaths' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14026218
RNW, 6.7.11: Srebrenica – ‘the Dutch should apologise’ http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/srebrenica-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%98-dutch-should-apologise%E2%80%99

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