Radovan Karadžić Sentenced By UN Court

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They didn't get any support at all. Nothing.

The UN said that just the presence of the battalion was enough to deter the Serbs and it wasn't necessary for Dutchbat to carry heavy arms, so they didn't. Whoopsie.
When Dutchbat asked for support they were ignored 3-4 times until it was too late and the Serbs rolled in with their tanks.

UN and NATO are to blame. 100%.

What was criticized was the decision to surrender the civilian population to the protection of the VRS, which was based on the belief that those people were going to be moved to safe zones. The Dutch Battalion could have refused to relinquish the people under their protection to the Serbs, and there is not a damn thing they would've done about it.

I agree that the UNPROFOR command should take at least part of the blame for the chain of events that led to the Srebrenica massacre. If the DBIII had artillery and air force support, perhaps it wouldn't have been forced to surrender to the Serbs. That, however, can also be blamed on Dutch armed forces, and more broadly speaking, the Dutch government - IIRC Karremans asked for CAS from two F-16s of the RNLAF. My knowledge of the structure of command of the NATO and UN forces is a bit fuzzy, but I don't think either party had no direction whatsoever on what their planes were doing. And - still, IIRC - veterans of DBIII sued the Dutch government to that effect. It goes without saying that, if the Dutch government will acknowledge to Dutch citizens that it is partially culpable for the Srebrenica cluster****, then it should also be held accountable in front of its victims (and relatives).

Whatever - at the end of the day, there is only one set of guys who came to Srebrenica with the intention to massacre along ethnic lines, and it was the Serbs under Mladic. May he rot in hell.