Dutch cleared over massacre of 8,000 in Srebrenica

A court has cleared the Netherlands of liability in the deaths of most of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims slain in the Srebrenica massacre 19 years ago.

It did, however, order the nation to compensate the families of more than 300 men turned over to Bosnian Serb forces and later killed.

In an emotionally-charged hearing at a civil court in The Hague, Presiding Judge Larissa Alwin said Dutch UN peacekeepers should have known that the men deported from the Dutch compound by Bosnian Serb forces on July 13, 1995, would be slain because there was already evidence of the Serbs committing war crimes.