The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that the state is liable for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men that were massacred in Srebrenica in 1995.
The men were working for Dutch peacekeeping forces and were sheltering in a UN compound, when it was overrun by Bosnian Serbs and the Dutch ordered them to leave.
The Dutch had said that the men were under the protection of the UN but relatives of the men argued that the Dutch were responsible for the men.
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