SARAJEVO/MOSTAR, Nov 8 (Hina) - A team of attorneys engaged by the families of 8,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre will sue the Netherlands for damages before the International Court of Justice at The Hague in two months' time,
the team said in southern Bosnia's Mostar on Saturday.
SARAJEVO/MOSTAR, Nov 8 (Hina) - A team of attorneys engaged by the
families of 8,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre will sue the
Netherlands for damages before the International Court of Justice
at The Hague in two months' time, the team said in southern Bosnia's
Mostar on Saturday. #L#
In the summer of 1995 Dutch troops of the United Nations Protection
Force transferred the U.N. safe haven of Srebrenica in eastern
Bosnia-Herzegovina to Serb troops under the command of General
Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted by the Hague war crimes
tribunal. His units went on to commit the gravest crime in Europe
after WWII by killing about 8,000 local Muslims.
In April 2002 Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok's cabinet tendered a
collective resignation after an investigation confirmed the
Netherlands' liability in the massacre.
The Srebrenica lawsuit is the second collective action in the
history of European judiciary after the Holocaust.
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