Srebrenica mothers lodge 875m claim against Dutch army

THE Mothers of Srebrenica pressure group has launched an 875 million compensation claim against the Dutch government and the UN for failing to prevent the worst European massacre since World War II.

Meanwhile, the UN war crimes court said yesterday it will hear the appeal this month of the first man to be found guilty of genocide for the massacre in Srebrenica.

An entire generation of Muslim men, numbering 7,000, were slaughtered by the Serbian army in the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in 1995.