Dutch Guilt Over 1995 Bosnian Massacre
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Thijs Bouwknegt, a reporter for Radio Netherlands Worldwide, about Dutch reaction to the capture of Bosnian Serb indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. Dutch troops, working as UN peacekeepers in Bosnian town of Srebrenica, were faulted for failing to prevent the 1995 massacre of more than 8000 Muslim men and boys. Mladic is believed to have given the order for the massacre.
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