THE HAGUE
The government of the Netherlands will pay damages to Dave Maat, a Dutch soldier who served as a United Nations peacekeeper during the Bosnian war.
The Dutch soldier will be paid damages by the government for the trauma he suffered while serving as a UN peacekeeper in Srebrenica, the Dutch Ministry of Defense said.
The court also said the Dutch defense minister failed to provide Maat with sufficient after-care.
The amount to be paid is yet to be determined and the verdict is expected to set a precedent to other soldiers who served during the Bosnian war.
The highest Dutch military court in March 2012 had ruled that Dave Maat suffered severe trauma when he served in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.
July 11, 1995 marked the slaying of more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces under the leadership of Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Dutch soldiers serving as UN peacekeeper during the war handed those sheltered in an old accumulator factory in Potocari to Serbian forces who were then murdered.
