Apologies with a bitter aftertaste

"The Serb parliament on 31 March adopted a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre, in which close to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb forces” in July 1995, announces Moldovan newspaper Timpul. While the EU is pleased that Belgrade, a candidate for EU accession, finally officially recognises the atrocities, the "Mothers of Srebrenica" Association of the victims’ parents have been nonsuited by the Dutch Court of Appeals in The Hague. The association had sued the UN and the Netherlands for failing to prevent the massacre, seeing as 400 Dutch UNPROFOR Blue Berets were stationed at the time in the Bosnian enclave, which was declared a “safe area” under UN protection. The appeals court found that the immunity of the UN, which is indispensable to its peacekeeping missions, takes precedence over the interests of the victims’ families, explains Trouw. The Mothers of Srebrenica have announced they are now going to ask the Dutch Supreme Court to put the UN immunity question to the European Court of Justice – and as a last resort they will turn to the European Court of Human Rights.