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Netherlands must demand openness from US
Veterans Dutchbat want that the truth about the fall of Srebrenica is revealed. They therefore demand that the Dutch State everything in its power to missing documents, which the Americans have in their possession to disclose.
From a documentary of Human / VPRO hadshowed that Western allies in the Netherlands even before the fall of Srebrenica decided not airstrikes longer carryout.This sheds new light on the tragedy in 1995, where Bosnian Serbs led by General Mladic were killing some 8,000 Muslim men.
The association Dutchbat 3 said in a response to the "very shocked" by the new information, which 20 years for the military was withheld. The Dutchbat soldiers want the complete truth, even if it does perhaps again ripped open wounds.
"No blame"
Many Dutchbat soldiers and former commander Thom Karremans be assisted by lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops. He said in the TV program Eye to Eyetonight that the Netherlands to the United States openness should require about what happened during the civil war in former Yugoslavia.
If the conclusions beating of the documentary, the Dutchbat soldiers and commander Karremans will no blame for the tragedy, Knoops said.
In that case, the US is to blame for the fall of Srebrenica, he says. Then Dutchbat by the US abandoned and the US has abandoned the genocide victims. France and Britain, according to him guilty, because those countries were involved in the decision to suspend the air strikes.
Should the US fail Netherlands to seek clarification Knoops will try to enforce through the courts. He expects it will not be necessary. "It would be crazy if the Dutch State would not themselves want," he said.
In the event that the Netherlands does not get himself to the US and a judge compels the State does not allow it, a lawsuit in the US is perhaps an opportunity to get their hands on the documents. Whether that actually has to be sorted out yet, says Knoops.
Shocked
Knoops told the program that former Colonel Karremans was silence on the phone when he informed him of the latest developments. Then Karremans would have said: "I have always known it, but I've never been able to prove that there was more that there was information that there were political interests."