Tens of Dutch soldiers who were part
of the Dutch U.N. Battalion in Srebrenica in 1995, want compensation from the
Dutch Ministry of Defense for the psychological damage they incurred. A few
days ago, the government agreed, after 10 years of court cases, to pay
compensation for one of the soldiers. He was 19 years old when he was stationed
in Srebrenica and he had been shot at, kidnapped and was a witness of the
killing of another soldier. A few years later, he held the ministry of defense
responsible because it didn’t offer any psychiatric care to the soldiers. The
highest legal, military authority agreed earlier this year that it had taken
“insufficient measures” to prevent post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS).
www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/2013/article/print/detail/3491518/Tientallen-oud-Dutchbatters-willen-schadevergoeding.dhtml
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