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Twelve years ago, Dutch troops were supposed to protect the Muslims in Srebrenica, but the UN-declared safe haven was overrun by Bosnian Serbs in 1995. Some eight thousand Muslim men and boys were killed by their captors after the fall of the town, Now relatives of those who were massacred in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica twelve years ago are suing the Dutch state for compensation. 

The war crimes trial of seven Serb military officers over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre resumed this week. The UN’s chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte reopened the trial in the Hague with fresh condemnation of Serbia for failing to arrest several top suspects, including Ratko Mladic. The International Criminal Court has charged Mladic – a Bosnian-Serb military commander during the 1992-95 war in the Balkans – with genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacre in which some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were summarily executed by Bosnian Serb troops.