Why Netherland people are against Croat?
I am from Serbia.... Dutch flag comes from the Eupedia form that asks about state where we live in... perhaps those flags should be removed as they are confusing...
you might have overly black and white picture of the world...
what often happens in wars is typical group behavior in which world is viewed through black and white "them" and "us" picture.... most atrocities in world were done by people believing they are doing good... well, look at islam fanatics who do terrorist acts, or at medieval priests who were hunting for witches... those are examples of people blinded with black and white view of the world... same black and white world view is visible in many soldiers and civilians involved in war...often mass-media contribute to such views...
in short, heros do war crimes too...
being brave soldier and having empathy for other human beings often do not go hand in hand...
while you can see Gotovina as your hero for being brave soldier, he is in same time war criminal because his forces committed war crimes... it is as simple as that...
same is with some Serb military personnel that can be in some respect regarded as heros, and in other as war criminals... Ratko Mladic is still hero for many Serbs... because in their view he organized an army that defended them from neo-ustashi attempt to kill 1/3, expell 1/3 and convert to catholics the reminder...
in my viewpoint, Mladic messed up very badly in several cases - taking UN soldiers as hostages to prevent NATO air strikes, not sending forces to defend local Serbs in Croatia when they were attacked by several times larger Croatian forces, and not preventing war crimes in Srebrenica area...
We in Croatia without Gotovina and another similar people we will be death.
non-sense...
with exception of Dubrovnik, Serb forces in that war never tried to conquer Croat settled areas...
worst battles were in areas with heavily mixed population (Vukovar suffering the most) and on borderline between Serb settled and Croat settled areas there was occasional mutual shelling...
than situation was frozen by UN forces...
situation ended with attack of several times larger Croat forces on local Serbs that caused most of the Serbs to leave their homes and flee to Serbia... attack came after Croat forces were trained for months by private companies of retired American generals...
overall, war in Bosnia was much more heavy and had much more civilian suffering and war crimes going on because populations of Serbs, muslims and Croats were much more mixed....
We try to find friends in EU , but they want not to help us.
Serbians have better lobby in Netherland, therefore you are against us.
I hope that Croatia and Netherland can be better friends.
I am surprise with this attitude...
there are no friends and enemies in foreign policy...there are interests..
Croatian politicians did always understand that better than Serbian ones...
and Netherlands has nothing to do with tribunal in Hague...that is international tribunal and judges are not Dutch... same tribunal did charge several Serb politicians and army officers, also from local Serb rebels in Croatia war...
so I do not see why is it problem that all war crimes are treated equally..
Regarding allusions about Netherlands politics being against Croatia and pro-Serbian, it is laughable...
Netherlands is the country that keeps halting the process of integration of Serbia into EU by insisting on full cooperation with tribunal in Hague... even though Serbia has sent to tribunal in Hague all suspects it could catch (over 90% of suspects) and had allowed Hague tribunal insight into all classified documents (similar requests were often ignored in Croatia)....
Srebrenica 1995. Netherland troops needed to stop killing, but they did not .
Human rights?
UN left 8000 to die in Bosnia.
http://www.gendercide.org/case_srebrenica.html
same was in Croatia...
UN forces were supposed to protect people attacked by Croatian forces led by general Gotovina...
but they just stepped aside...
essentially reason is that it is politically hard decision to get involved in a war where you came in order to supervise situation and separate conflicting forces...it is same as when two people are fighting and third one tries to separate them... rarely will a person who want to separate people in conflict actually use force to do so....especially if the people in conflict are stronger.... and those UN forces were typically not strong enough to defend even themselves .. other thing is that those so called demilitarized zones were not demilitarized and had own armies.... there were constant attacks from Srebrenica on surrounding Serb positions and villages... of course, it is a war and strategy to keep enemy forces busy on wide area.... but when there is action, there is reaction....