Srebrenica Survivors Sue U.N., Dutch Government
By Associated Press | June 5, 2007
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II filed a lawsuit yesterday against the United Nations and the Dutch government, saying they failed to protect civilians in Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995 and slaughtered 8,000 men. The suit came on the day when a former Bosnian Serb general, Zdravko Tolimir, one of the suspects in the killings in which up to 8,000 men and boys died, was arraigned before the U.N. war crimes tribunal but declined to enter a plea. "The goal is not financial for the mothers and other survivors: it's about satisfaction," said lawyer Marco Gerritsen, who will represent 6,000 family members of victims in the lawsuit.
