Unbelievable. The UK Guardian has the story of how Holland is trying to whitewash its role in permitting Bosnian war crimes:

Henk Kamp, the Dutch defence minister, unveiled a plaque at the barracks praising the troops who failed to act to prevent the atrocity at Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, seized the enclave in eastern Bosnia, separated the males from the women and children, and then organised the mass murder of almost 8,000 men over 10 days in July 1995… Mr Kamp handed out medals to 500 members of the Dutch battalion stationed at Srebrenica, which was a so-called UN safe haven, ostensibly under UN protection when it was overrun by the Serbs.

The medals were to acknowledge that the Dutch troops had "for years wrongly been held responsible for what happened in the enclave," said Mr Kamp.

Tom Karremans, the Dutch commander at Srebrenica present at Monday's ceremony, was photographed socialising and drinking with Gen Mladic. The Dutch were said to have obtained the release of 14 kidnapped peacekeepers in return for not obstructing the Serbian operation.

Protests were staged in Sarajevo and other Bosnian towns denouncing the military decorations as "scandalous". There were also protests in the Netherlands, but Bosnians who sought to travel there to demonstrate were denied visas.

Shall I do the math here? Apparently these "peacekeepers" thought that the lives of 8000 Muslim civilians were worth sacrificing to rescue 14 supposedly professional soldiers. So one Dutch soldier was valued at 571.4 Bosnians. This is the sort of bravery which the Dutch defence ministry thinks is worthy of medals.