Writ of summons - Van Diepen Van der Kroef

‘I saw in the night of 11th to 12th July 1995 Dutchbat soldiers and Serbs walkingtogether around the compound. I recognized two Dutchbat soldiers, whom I had earlierseen walking about in Srebrenica. The Dutchbat soldiers and the Serbs together tookmen and boys out of the crowd of refugees. My mother and I saw how they took awaytwo boys. I estimate that those boys were about thirteen years old. I do not know whathappened to those boys.(…)My mother and I went searching for water in the afternoon. Nearby was a house, with acorn field and a stream beyond that. When we got there we saw several dead bodieslying in the field. They had been beheaded. The decapitated heads lay next to thebodies. My mother and I screamed when we saw the bodies. Just then some Dutchbatsoldiers were nearby, not more than 10 to 15 meters away. They did not react whenthey heard us scream. They just wanted us to go back. I do not know whether theDutchbat soldiers saw the dead bodies, but I think so. They were always patrolling inthat area, after all.The corn field was later put out of bounds with a yellow tape. We were not allowed intothe field any more. A Dutchbat soldier then told me that it was better not to go thereanymore. That Dutchbat soldier spoke Bosnian badly.I also spent the night of 12th to 13th July 1995 in the factory, together with myhusband, my mother and my mother-in-law. I saw how Serbian and Dutch soldierswalked together through the group of refugees. They pulled men out and took themaway. The whole night I heard people scream. They called out to their children,brothers and husbands. There was shooting outside the factory.In the morning of 13th July 1995 I went with a couple of other women in the directionof two nearby houses. We had to relieve ourselves. The women who were walking infront suddenly began to scream. They cried out that they could see many dead bodieslying there. We immediately ran away. I did not myself see the dead bodies.’© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com102