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On 16 July the Hague district court found the Dutch government liable for the death of some 320 Muslims inhabitants of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) who were killed by general Ratko Mladić’s Bosian Serb militias during the Bosnian War, on 13 July 1995. Trouw calls it a "victory" for the “Mothers of Srebrenica” who hold the Dutch state accountable for the death of their relatives. The victims had found shelter in the Dutch peacekeeping force’s compound among 5,000 other people and were handed over to outnumbering Bosnian Serb troops, who later killed them. Some 8,000 Muslim men and women who fled the enclave were massacred.
However, the daily believes that “the book is still not closed”, as the court found the Dutch government is not liable for those deaths. In 2013 the Dutch government was already judged to be directly responsible for three murders.
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