News in English     | 19.07.2019. 11:32 |

Tahirović: Victims disappointed with the judgment of Dutch Supreme Court

FENA Jasna Avdibegović

SARAJEVO, July 19 (FENA) - The victims and their families are disappointed with today's Supreme Court ruling in the Netherlands, bearing in mind that the Netherlands's liability in the previous verdict was 30 percent, with the Supreme Court diminishing that responsibility to about 10 percent, which is certainly devastating, President of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide Murat Tahirović told FENA after the pronouncement of the verdict.

“The Srebrenica mothers are currently talking with the lawyers about the possibility of continuing the proceedings before the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg,” said Tahirović.

He noted that this procedure is likely to continue because the victims consider that the Netherlands ultimately carries its part of the responsibility for the crime of genocide committed in Srebrenica.

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Netherlands is partially responsible for the July 1995 deaths of 300 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.

Relatives of the victims first sued the Netherlands in 2007, arguing that the country is accountable for the deaths of 300 Muslim men because its troops expelled them from their UN base on July 13, 1995, knowing they would be killed.

Some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims — mostly boys and men — were killed by Bosnian Serbs in the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2002, a report into the Netherlands’ role at Srebrenica caused the entire Dutch government to resign.

A group of victims’ relatives, the Mothers of Srebrenica, are behind the long-running legal action. Their case originally sought acknowledgment and compensation from the UN as well, but the organization was ruled to be immune from prosecution.

An appeals court had previously set the liability at 30%, but the Supreme Court’s ruling has drastically reduced that figure.

If Dutch forces had given the men the chance to stay in their compound, there was just a 10% chance they would not have fallen into the hands of the Serbs, and so the Dutch state should be liable for only that proportion of the damages suffered by the bereaved, the Dutch court ruled on Friday.

(FENA) S. R.

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