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| − | |description=Prosecuted for war crimes in [[Iraq]], [[Indonesia]] & [[Bosnia]]. Their role in the [[Srebrenica massacre]] is particularly sketchy.
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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 were sentenced and have been implicated in [[war crimes]] in [[Indonesia]] and [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/netherlands-war-crimes/</ref>
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| − | A Dutch [[UN]]-sanctioned infantry group known as the Dutchbatters protected Bosnian Muslim man and boys until they were encircled by [[Bosnian]]-[[Serbians]] on the 8th of July [[1995]]<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49042372</ref> in the Yugoslavian civil war in the city of [[Srebenica]]<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre</ref>. According to the official narrative<ref>https://www.spiegel.de/international/dealing-with-genocide-a-dutch-peacekeeper-remembers-srebrenica-a-364902.html</ref>, Dutch UN Lieutenant-Colonel Thom Karremans was denied request for air-support by Dutch general Nicolai two times, and an additional 2 times 3 days later and was only granted two strikes by one plane. That was after they were ordered by Nicolai to head back to Italy for refuelling after circling the area for hours. The US Air Force ''could not find'' these targets and resulted in the second Dutch strike to be aborted as the city was over-run by the army of [[Ratko Mladić]] who immediately threatened to "execute 55 Dutch soldiers". The Dutch were allowed to flee to the VN-base of Potocari. 20.000 of the Bosnian muslins fled to compound surrounding the basis. Thom Karremans was subsequently still ignored by the NATO-leadership and Dutch government and humiliated by Mladic. 2 days later Mladic kidnapped all men and boys (around 8000) of the 20.000 under the eyes of the Dutch infantry, led them away and executed them over a period of 9 days. The last remaining Dutchbat unit entered [[Zagreb]] celebrating with Minister [[Joris Voorhoeve]] a period later.<ref>https://balkaninsight.com/2019/08/08/it-was-hell-dutch-troops-recall-failure-to-stop-srebrenica-deaths/</ref>
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| − | A Dutch major was revealed to have ordered the [[MIVD]] in [[1995]] to secretly go to a lieutenant who had made pictures of [[Serbian]] [[war crimes]] in Srebenica. The Photographic films could've proven the Dutch would've known of the genocide much earlier than the international community would've condemned it to be. The film was "damaged beyond repair" after an "unusual production process". Lieutenant Peter Putten of the research-unit of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee argued in [[2015]] that the mistakes that led to the film never to be published and damaged beyond repair was part of a [[cover-up]] by the Dutch government. One of the leading involved [[MIVD]]-researchers did not go that far but did argue it was strange the Dutch MOD told him to remain silent. It seems the NATO-countries tried to made sure Yugoslavia destroyed itself from inside out and did not want anyone to find proof that they actively participated in war crimes with other purposes.<ref>https://nos.nl/artikel/2041124-fotorolletje-srebrenica-ligt-nog-in-archief.html</ref>
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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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