Dutchbat

DUTCHBAT (military short term for "Dutch battalion") nominally was a Dutch battalion under the command of the United Nations in operation United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). It was hastily formed out of the emerging first ever Air Mobile Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces between February 1994 and November 1995 to participate in peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia. To it fell the role of safekeeping the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. In its third replacement, "Dutchbat III," commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Karremans, the enclave fell to the Bosnian Serbs under Colonel General Ratko Mladić. The forces under Mladić's command proceeded to massacre Srebrenica's male inhabitants after the town's capture.