Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (The Netherlands) - Rechtbank Den Haag

Date: 07/17/2014

Subject: The Rechtbank Den Haag deemed the State responsible for the destiny of the men deported in the late afternoon of 13 July 1995 from the compound of Potočari, headquarters of the Dutch forces (Dutchbat) during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then murdered by the Serb-Bosnian army, also recalling the ECHR norms and the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg.

Parties: Mothers of Srebrenica v. the State of the Netherlands, Ministry of General Affairs

Original language: Dutch

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life

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