On the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, our project leader Ger Duijzings is sharing some of his thoughts in a blogpost reflecting on the responsibilities of ‘bystanders’, such as the Dutch UN troops that were in Srebrenica on 11 July 1995. He highlights alarming resemblances between Srebrenica 1995 and the current situation in Gaza, underscoring the urgent need to anticipate worst-case scenarios of what could happen, responding decisively to the threat of genocide.
Ger Duijzings was a member of the Srebrenica Research Team at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam. At the second half of the 1990s, the NIOD was tasked with investigating the events in Srebrenica and the role the Dutch UN troops had played. Days after publication of the report, in April 2002, the Dutch government resigned.
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