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encountered objections from the Dutch government because this hard line against theBosnian Serbs could entail risks for the Dutch hostages. The Netherlands preferred useof the formulation, ‘to use his best efforts’. For this reason The Netherlands withdrew asco-proposer of the draft resolution. The draft resolution was, nevertheless, unanimouslyaccepted on 12 July 1995. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali then instituted aninvestigation into the military means that would be required to achieve a restoration ofthe Safe Area by force. His military advisor, the Dutch Van Kappen, judged a plan toretake Srebrenica as unmanageable in military and political terms (see pages 296 and297 of the Summary of the NIOD Report). In the end nothing was done.271. After the women were deported from the Safe Area by bus to Tuzla, after the men andboys were taken away and murdered, Dutchbat left the area together with the freedhostages on 21 July 1995.272. In the week preceding their departure, Dutchbat neglected every attempt either throughan appeal for information or a form of debriefing to reveal information on possible veryserious violations of human rights. Both Franken and Karremans subsequently admittedthat they were amazed that they had not thought of doing so. Nor was anything done inthat respect higher up in the hierarchy of UNPROFOR (see page 2776 of the NIODReport).I.15. Individual circumstances of each Plaintiff273. The individual circumstances of each Plaintiff will be gone into in more detail below.Plaintiff refers for completeness to the statements that have been appended to this writof summons as Exhibits 1 through 10. Each Plaintiff will confine herself essentially tothe family members she lost. Plaintiff was driven from hearth and home with the fall ofthe Safe Area and thereby lost all her personal possessions.Fejzić274. Plaintiff Fejzić was born in 1956, in the Municipality of Srebrenica. She lived before thewar in Srebrenica with her husband, Ŝaban (born in 1952), who worked as a manager atthe mine near Srebrenica. Fejzić and her husband had a son, Rijad, who was born in© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com121