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Press Release
Amnesty International Praises Court for Holding Netherlands Responsible for Three Srebrenica Deaths
Contact: AIUSA media relations, 202-509-8194 (Washington, DC)— The Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a local appeals court in The Hague has ruled today. The case is the first time that an individual government has been held accountable for the conduct of its peacekeeping troops carrying out a U.N. mandate. The court ruled that on July 10, 1995 Dutch troops serving as U.N. peacekeepers in Srebrenica allowed three Bosnians to leave a "safe area," and effectively handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces. These forces killed the…
July 5, 2011
Report
Annual Report: Netherlands 2010
Head of state Queen Beatrix Head of government Jan Peter Balkenende Death penalty abolitionist for all crimes Population 16.6 million Life expectancy 79.8 years Under-5 mortality (m/f) 6/5 per 1,000 Asylum-seekers were transferred to Greece, despite continuing concern about their lack of access to a fair asylum-determination procedure there. Accelerated asylum-determination procedures, detentions of asylum-seekers and migrants, the extension of pre-trial detention and the denial of legal assistance during police questioning of criminal suspects gave rise to concern. Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants Following a court ruling in May, the government resumed transfers of asylum-seekers to Greece for determination of their…
March 19, 2011