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| − | The '''Royal Netherlands Army''' is the main land force of the Netherlands. It has participated in the Napoleonic Wars, [[World War II]], the [[Indonesian]] War of Independence, the [[Korean War]] and served with [[NATO]] on the [[Cold War]] frontiers in [[West Germany]], the [[Iraq War]], [[War in Afghanistan]], as well as deployed in several [[United Nations]]' peacekeeping missions in [[Lebanon]], [[Bosnia]]-Herzegovina and [[Mali]]. The Dutch was attributed or have been implicated in [[war crimes]] in Indonesia and Yugoslavia.
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| − | The Dutch claimed after the end of the war that air support "was just too difficult to get" and that whatever happened was inevitable. The Dutch did not admit any [[genocide]] to have taken place. And denied there was any conspiracy. This closed the case until investigative program Argos revealed the [[US]], [[UK]] and [[France]] and [[Bosnia]] had already agreed on no air-strikes and agreed the area could not be saved, but did not inform [[Dutch Minister of Defence]] [[Joris Voorhoeve]] or Bosnian Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Mohamed Sacirbey]]. Several scholars have concluded the Dutchbat-units even had a unfavourable opinion of [[Muslims]] in general which may have contributed to their effiency.
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| − | Janja Beč-Neumann, [[Serbian]] sociologist, genocide researcher concluded the Dutchbat unit had actively comitted<ref>http://www.groene.nl/2009/43/Janja_Bec-Neumann_over_de_lsquo%3Bracisten_en_lafaardsrsquo%3B_van_Dutchbat</ref> genocide by helping Mladic separating the men and boys from their families, standing and not doing anything while Serbians raped Muslim girls in front of their eyes.<ref>http://www.legal-tools.org/en/doc/ca1e99/</ref> In [[2006]] Dutch government awarded the Dutch UN peacekeepers who served in Srebrenica an insignia because they believed they "deserved recognition for their behaviour in difficult circumstances". In a judgement dated 6 September [[2013]], The Supreme Court of the Netherlands found the Netherlands as a state responsible for the death of the 350 of the murdered men.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40417019</ref>
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| − | After reports Dutch F-16s were also responsible for the failed bombing of the RTS [[TV|TV]]-station on April 23 1999 during the war of [[Yugoslavia]], The Dutch Union of Lawyers for Peace, several Dutch [[activists|activists]], the legal defence of [[Slobodan Milošević|Slobodan Milošević]] and a Dutch-[[Serbian|Serbian]] Human rights group sued the government of [[Wim Kok|Wim Kok]] and Foreign Affairs minister [[Jozias van Aarsen|Jozias van Aarsen]] for the attacks in [[2001]].<ref>https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kok-medeplichtig-aan-navo-bombardement~bc48a8cf/</ref><ref>http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg-pr010204.htm</ref>
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| − | The Dutch Court of Appeal in [[Amsterdam|Amsterdam]] concluded the Dutch government (and by implication NATO) should've not used "[[United Nations Security Council|United Nations Security Council]] Resolution 474 to justify the use of military force against Yugoslavia" and decided the government had violated international law by using force.
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