This is dignified

My hat is off to Frans Timmermans, Netherlands Foreign Minister, who spoke at the UN Security Council today:

Note the emphasis on justice. The Dutch, who have held their own peacekeepers culpable for the murder of Bosnians evicted from the Dutchbat compound at Srebrenica, are serious about that.

Daniel Serwer

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