JULY ’95 SREBRENICA WITNESS STATEMENTS (ICTY archival document 00464515)

Reports of legitimate Muslim column combat losses. There are numerous statements by survivors of the BiH Army 28th Division column which conducted the armed breakout from the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995 and engaged in combat clashes with Serbian forces which confirm the resulting casualties sustained by the column. Such casualties are legitimate combat losses.…

Joyce van de Bildt: Srebrenica – a Dutch national trauma

ABSTRACT: “The Srebrenica genocide of 1995 and the failure of Dutch peacekeeping troops to protect the enclave have brought about a lingering, painful national debate in the Netherlands. Almost two decades after the fall of Srebrenica, the issue remains sensitive in Dutch society. From the extensive amount of Dutch writing, analyses and investigations into what…

Lt. Col. Peter Jan de Vin, Royal Netherlands Marine Corps: Srebrenica – “The impossible choices of a Commander.”

The text below is the author’s Master of Military Studies paper presented in 2008 at the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College. The author is a Dutch officer, presumably training in the US as a NATO exchange student. The paper is not remarkable either in its analysis or its conclusions, but it faithfully reflects…