Hasan Nuhanović

Hasan Nuhanović (born April 2, 1968 in Zvornik ) is a Bosnian translator and survivor of the Srebrenica massacre . He sued the Kingdom of the Netherlands because the UN troops u. a. verifiably had surrendered his brother to the Serbian troops. The Dutch UN blue helmets delivered a total of 6,000 refugees to the Serbian militia.

Life

Nuhanović completed a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Sarajevo . In 1992 he, his parents and his younger brother Muhamed were deported to Srebrenica with other Bosnian refugees . Nuhanović worked as a translator for the Dutch UN force Dutchbat at their base in Potočari . His family had to leave the base in 1995, were taken away by the Serbs and later murdered in Pilica or near Vlasenica . In 2005 Nuhanović published a chronology of the events in Srebrenica, which appeared in English translation in 2007 under the title Under the UN flag: the international community and the Srebrenica genocide and was presented at the Berlin International Literature Festival, among others .

Together with the widows of Srebrenica , he founded the Memorial Center in Potočari. It is supposed to remind of the "ethnic cleansing".

Assassination of Muhamed Nuhanović

The Dutchbat UN force, initially around 600 and later 400 men, to secure the Bosnian enclave and UN protection zone Srebrenica, was commanded by officer Thomas Karremans . After the Bosnian Serb army invaded in July 1995 in the protection zone and on July 9, just one kilometer from the city limits was removed Thom Karremans asked repeatedly NATO - air support , which, however, failed to materialize. Dutch blue helmets who drove out of the protection zone to organize supplies of material were in some cases no longer allowed to Srebrenica by soldiers and mercenaries of the Vojska Republike Srpske. So the number of blue helmets decimated by a third of the original UN contingent. Karremans reached an agreement with the commander of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladić , to extradite 6,000 people who had sought refuge from the Serbian soldiers inside the UN barracks.

On July 21, when the area had been occupied by Mladić's troops for several days, the Dutchbat withdrew. Ratko Mladić's humiliating farewell and abuse of Thomas Karremans was televised worldwide. Also known was a photo that Ratko Mladić and Thomas Karremans took on the evening of July 12, 1995 while toasting them together. Hasan Nuhanović asked the UN blue helmets to protect his brother Muhamed Nuhanović and to bring him to safety in a UN vehicle from the soldiers of the Vojska Republike Srpske von Mladić. They refused on the grounds that they had too much luggage.

Muhamed Nuhanović was then murdered by the Serbian-Bosnian army. Hasan Nuhanović later identified his brother's body in a mass grave from the sneakers he had given him.

process

In July 2010, the interpreter Hasan Nuhanović and relatives of the murdered electrician Rizo Mustafić, who was then working for the UN, filed charges of “ genocide and war crimes ” against Thomas Karremans, his deputy Major Rob Franken and officer Berend Oosterveen. Relatives - including Nuhanović's father and his brother Mustafićs - were employed by Dutchbat during the Bosnian War , and the Dutch commanders were responsible for the extradition of the local Muslim employees to the Serbs. On July 5, 2011, an appeals court in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of the three men. According to the judges, the commanders must have been aware of the danger the four men were exposed to as a result of their deportation from the camp. The Netherlands then appealed again to the High Council in The Hague, the highest Dutch civil and criminal court. The reason given was that only the United Nations would have been responsible for the operation in Bosnia. On September 6, 2013, the Supreme Council upheld the judgment of the previous instance, making the Dutch state liable for the deaths of the three men. The judges invoked international law, according to which the sending state is also jointly responsible for its peacekeeping forces, even if they operate under a UN mandate.

Karremans is now retired and lives in Spain. In 1998 he published his experiences in Srebrenica with the title Srebrenica, Who Cares ?: een puzzel van de werkelijkheid . When Karremans flew several times from Spain to The Hague as a witness in Hasan Nuhanović's trial , he then used to send his flight and hotel bills to the survivor of the massacre, who each had to pay more than 2,000 euros.

Publications

• Pod zastavom UN-a: medunarodna zajednica i zlocin u Srebrenici. BZK Preporod, Sarajevo 2005, ISBN 9958-815-04-4 .
• Under the UN flag: the international community and the Srebrenica genocide. Translation, Sarajevo 2007, ISBN 978-9958-728-87-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good Di Paul R. Bartrop
2. ↑ How I identified my murdered brother tagesspiegel.de, accessed on November 27, 2013.
3. ↑ biography literaturfestival.com, accessed on November 27, 2013.
4. ↑ And nothing but the truth, in Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 23, 2013.
5. ^ Ratko Mladic - The main work of a war criminal In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 45, February 22, 2006, page 2.
6. ↑ Cees Banning: Aangifte genocide tegen Karremans - complaint against Karremans for genocide ( memento of the original of October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: NRC Handelsblad , July 6, 2010 (Dutch). 
7. ^ Netherlands liable for three murders in Srebrenica. (No longer available online.) Tagesschau.de , July 5, 2011, archived from the original on July 6, 2011 ; Retrieved July 5, 2011 . 
8. ↑ Bart Hinke: Nederland aansprakelijk voor dood drie Bosnian moslims - 'oordeel spectaculair', NRC Handelsblad , July 5, 2011 (Dutch).
9. ^ Bosnian War: The Netherlands are liable for the deaths of three Srebrenica victims , zeit.de, September 6, 2013 (accessed September 7, 2013).
10. ↑ Alex Rühle : And nothing but the truth. A man is suing the Netherlands because their blue helmet soldiers did not prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 23, 2013.