Onder 2 Rechtbank Den Haag 16 juli 2014

4.186. Claimants accuse Dutchbat of not or of not correctly implementing the formal order it received from Sarajevo on July 9th 1995 at 22:00 hours to take up blocking positions to prevent any further advance by the Bosnian Serbs towards the town of Srebrenica. In this connection Claimants point out that the commander of Dutchbat’s B company Captain Groen interpreted incorrectly the order by instructing his men that only if there were a direct attack could they use self-defence and only then if it was necessary whereby initially they were to fire over the heads of the Bosnian Serbs. According to Claimants in doing so Dutchbat allowed its own safety to prevail over that of the task with which it had been charged namely to protect the populace in the safe area as is also evidenced by Karremans’ statement in response to the current order namely, “that he thought his troops were too good to be sacrificed”. According to Claimants Dutchbat had abandoned the blocking positions too quickly and too easily and at the last blocking position taken had acted contrary to Gobilliard’s order by leaving it unfortified.

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