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protection of its own troops seriously. There was a failure to give weight to intelligence.According to the then Canadian Commander in Srebrenica, Lieutenant-Colonel J.Champagne, The Netherlands was barely interested in his account of the difficultsituation in Srebrenica (see page 1067 of the NIOD Report and page 118 of theSummary of the NIOD Report). Even proposals of the United States, for example, toplace advanced listening equipment at its disposal were resolutely rejected by the Stateof the Netherlands. There was no contact between the Canadian and Dutch governmentsconcerning military matters. The Netherlands made not a single request to Canada forinformation prior to the Dutch troops arriving in Srebrenica. Dutchbat learned that thesuspension of hostilities in the safe area was violated some 150 to 400 times a day onlywhen it relieved Canbat. It subsequently appeared that Dutch politicians had not beenaware of that fact (see page 122 of the Summary of the NIOD Report).56. The NIOD Report devoted a separate part to the issue of intelligence (C. Wiebes,Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995). The Ministry of Defence neverrequested, either prior to or during the deployment of Dutchbat, the Military IntelligenceService (MID) to compile a risk-analysis. The MID scarcely played a role in the conflictin Bosnia (see page 118 of the cited work of C. Wiebes). The NIOD concludedunsurprisingly that there was here an issue of poor intelligence, with the result thateffective action during the fall was precluded in advance. The NIOD made reference inthis connection even to an intelligence failure (see page 461 of the cited work of C.Wiebes).I.5. Command Structure of UNPROFOR57. The command structure of UNPROFOR at the time of the fall of the Srebrenica SafeArea will be examined below in the interest of a better understanding of the remainder ofthis writ of summons.58. The formal chain of command began in UNPROFOR in Zagreb. Below that was theBosnia Herzegovina Command in Sarajevo, also known as BiH command. Under thatfell the Sector North East at Tuzla, which in turn gave orders to Dutchbat in© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com34