SARAJEVO, Bosnia (March 26,2008) – A member of the international lawyer team,Semir Guzin,representing the families of the genocide victims from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica who filed a lawsuit against the Netherlands and the United Nations in the Hague, stated yesterday that the start of proceeding is scheduled for June 18 in which all sides will have the chance to present their case.
Start of proceeding relates to the lawsuit filed by the families of the genocide victims from Srebrenica against the Netherlands and the UN for not doing anything to prevent the genocide committed in the secured zone of the UN in 1995 during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.
The lawsuit contains 8.000 individual cases with around 6.000 plaintiffs.
The genocide victims' families launched the lawsuit against the Netherlands and the U.N. in July 2007, arguing the Dutch U.N. soldiers were to blame for the genocide in Sreberenica because they refused crucial air support to their own troops defending the Bosnian town.
The Dutch U.N. soldiers abandoned the enclave instead,and the genocidal Serbian aggressor mass murdered up to 10,000 Bosnian civilians who had relied on protection from the Dutch U.N. troops.
Former leaders of the Serbians living in Bosnia,Serbian war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on genocide charges over Srebrenica, are still on the run.
Dismayed by the failure to bring to justice the two chief suspects, the genocide victims' families say they have turned to a Dutch court for recognition and redress for the tragedy.
The Dutch state has always said its troops were abandoned by the U.N. which gave them no air support, but public documents actually show a network of Dutch military officials within the U.N. blocked air support because they feared their soldiers could be hit by friendly fire, the genocide victims families' lawyers said.
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