[Gllug] BBC Open Source

[Rich Walker]

Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:34 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 08:29, Chris Bell wrote:
>> 
>> >    Perhaps there might be some serious debates if there is a hung
>> > parliament (the argument against this seems to be that they may not make
>> > any decisions, although that may not be a bad thing).
>> 
>> It hasn't hurt the Dutch for the last 30 years - every "government" has been a 
>> coalition!
>> 
> The families of Srebrenica have cause to think otherwise

[sigh]

DUTCHBAT were under a UN mandate that did not allow them to do
*ANYTHING* to actively defend the citizens.

It was only *after* this that the UN were able to use force, and mostly
NATO took over anyway.

And it didn't have much to do with the Dutch government.

(I'm just reading William Shawcross's Deliver Us From Evil, and the
chapter I read this morning was exactly this. Horrific.)

cheers, Rich.

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