The Netherlands will deploy 160 soldiers to Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of European Union Peacekeeping Mission (Eufor Althea) in country, according to a statement issued Thursday.
A joint statement from the Dutch Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs put the death toll at 150 soldiers It will be sent to youfor Althea in Oct and 10 soldiers He will go to gather intelligence in the region in June.
the soldiers You are expected to serve for a year, while the intelligence officers will remain for Two years.
the decision came from the council of Ministers under the pretext that Russia and China are trying to increase their influence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Statement added that importance of Euphor Althea has increased complications from the very beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Operation Althea, officially Eufor, is a military hiring in Bosnia and Herzegovina established in 2004 to supervise military application of Dayton Peace Agreement and ensure protection in Country.
last yearHolland expressed its “deepest apologies” to people of Srebrenica, 27th anniversary of Worst genocide since World War II, accept responsibility for Dutch peacekeepers failure to intervene for the first time since the massacre.
“the international community failed to offer enough protection to people of Srebrenica. and Dutch government shares responsible for the situation in that’s that failure happened. And for “With this, we offer our deepest apologies,” Dutch Defense Minister Cassja Olongren said during the ceremony. in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Balkan wars broke out out in 1990s when Yugoslavia disintegrated, and eventually collapsed up in about a half dozen new countries. some of It was the worst of the fights in Bosnia and Herzegovina also fought ethnic Serb forces with Muslim and ethnic Croatian forces for controls of province.
in summer of 1995, Dutch forces under the command of the United Nations were supposed to defend population of Muslim majority city of Srebrenica they put up No resistance on July 11th of that year When the Serbian forces are under command of Ratko Mladic stormed out city.
The ethnic Serb forces killed about 8,000 Muslims men and boys, in What is widely considered the worst incident of genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.
