Just a short one in-between.
On TV we could see how lieutenant-colonel Karremans had a toast with Mr. Mladic. We could see how Dutch soldiers shook hands with the Serbian soldiers in Srebenica. We couldn't see any frustration, any silent protest from the Dutch soldiers when they realised that they couldn't fight the Serbians. Now they try to hide behind the NATO (they were guilty, too), but nothing suggests their reluctance to try to prevent the Serbs fromn killing 7,000 men in Srebrenica.
Mr. Mladic will show and use these images, and also the images of himself, reassuring the people of Srebrenica that nothin would harm them and that they would be treated in a friendly way. And also, that he didn't know anything about the massacre that took place.
Unbelievably, Mr. Karremans got a promotion to general after his behaviour in which he didn't even took a neutral position as he was supposed to do as a NATO officer, but he even showed friendship behaviour with Mladic, drinking and exchanging presents. Even though we could see how Mr. Mladic offended him by calling him a lousy piano player. Luckily Mr. Karremans recently told in a radio interview that he felt responsible, co-responsible, for the killings that took place.
If Mr Karremans is a man with balls, then he would leave the army voluntarily by resigning. I feel ashamed to have such military people in the Dutch army, luckily there are examples of other more brave military such as Mr. Marco Kroon, who got the highest order possible in the army for his brave behaviour in Afghanistan, but got prosecuted for alleged possession of drugs, for which he got acquittal.
Apparently, we punish our brave military, and we reward our cowards. It's a shame. The Dutch government should be sentenced to pay compensation to the widows of the killed people of Srebrenica. Maybe they can declare this money partly from NATO who refused to send help forces to support the handful of Dutch soldiers who were supposed to withhold the Serb army from murdering, an impossible task, but not enough to hide behind the broad shoulders of NATO.
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