are u dutch ? what did the dutch forces do in bosnia in 90s? oh yeah opened the gates for serbs to massacare muslims.
shut up.
our politicians send them there ligthly armed and with “no escalation” orders.
They were completely outmatched and massively outnumbered by the serb army. There had been troops killed already and troops taken hostage.
They called for allied airforce support which was not given. (Again due to escalation concerns)
Serbs gave guarantee to not hurt the prisoners. Hence the bus-transports.
That gave the weakly armed, outnumbered, unprepared, unprofessional dutch contingent two options.
1. Stand and fight the Serbs.
Lose your job, lose dozens of soldiers, lose hundreds of refugees that would be caught inbetween
2. Surrender and allow the Serbs to take prisoners under guarantee of good conduct.
Ofcourse they knew the serbs were brutal, but “biggest massacre since ww2” brutal under the eyes of the world? That they did not expect.
You can accuse them of cowardice ofcourse. I think the same.
Once a few dozen troops start dying the UN allies would act.
But the way you portray it is false….
learning from this we came back to help save Kosovo. This time with proper arms and professional soldiers, not some party kid reservists.
So we have a nation trying to help. Losing soldiers. Failing due to cowardice and naievity.
Then succesfully helping in kosovo
But is painted as “see west wants muslims dead”. **** off.
