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Old 7th Sep 2013, 23:28
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parabellum
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The actions of the Dutch at Srebrenica were nothing short of negligent in allowing genocide to happen under their own noses, there was no hint of actually defending the place, numbers of troops notwithstanding. At least they've recognised this in recent years.
That is total tosh Laarbruch72, had the Dutch resisted then they would have been wiped out, to a man. Their OC took the correct action to save his men, unaware that a massacre, rather than loss of control of an area, was about to take place. One might also ask why the commanders on the ground didn't order a considerable reinforcement of the UN troops already there when they became aware the Dutch were no longer in control.

Tankertrashnav has it right here:

I await some realistic suggestions from you as to what 400 lightly armed troops could have done to oppose a heavily armed force of much greater size fighting virtually on its own ground, constrained as the Dutch were by the rigorous restrictions placed on UN forces by their rules of engagement?
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