Dutch government quits over '95 Bosnia atrocity
Peter Finn The Washington Post
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
FRANKFURT The Dutch government resigned Tuesday after the publication last week of a damning report on the murder of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who were taken from the UN-designated safe-area of Srebrenica in July 1995 and shot to death by Bosnian Serbs while under the ostensible protection of cowed and uncertain Dutch troops.
In the single most brutal chapter of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, and a moment that stained the reputation of the international community as well as that of the Netherlands, a small, lightly-armed Dutch peace-keeping contingent operating under a toothless UN mandate and unable to get military backing from its allies, including the United States, essentially stepped aside as Bosnian Serbs overran the enclave.
The blue-helmeted peackeeping troops helped "evacuate" the Muslims who were then taken to their places of death, their bodies bulldozed into the ground.
The worst mass murder in Europe since the genocide of World War II has haunted the liberal Dutch conscience for seven years, and the mass resignation Tuesday, less than a month before national elections, was a belated if politically meaningless act of collective penance.
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Get the pattern?? Mass murders of innocent Muslim civilians in Bosnia, Kosovo; in Chechnya; in Palestine; and, all the while, hate crimes against Muslims all across Europe --from Moscow to Berlin to El Ejido (*) (Andalucia, Spain).... If anything, the current outburst of vandalism against synagogues and other Jewish outfits might be interpreted as a (clumsy) "preemptive self-defence" of sorts, as Europe's Muslim outcasts vaguely sense that they're next in line....
Gus
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