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leaders (Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic) intended to capture Srebrenica, but that theinternational community did nothing to prevent it. There was even a meeting at theWhite House at which the then American Vice-President, Al Gore, read out transcriptsof tapped telephone calls between Milosevic and Mladic about the planned attack onSrebrenica. The UN Tribunal requested the phone tapping protocols, but did not receivethem on the ground that these either did not exist or had been destroyed. Del Ponte didnot believe this (see cited interview in Paris Match).81. The former Dutch Minister of Defence, Voorhoeve, also recently stated that at least twoof the bigger permanent members of the UN Security Council knew around June 1995that the Bosnian Serbs intended to overrun in the following weeks the three Safe Areas(Srebrenica, Gorazde and Zepa) in Bosnia (TV programme, ‘Spraakmakende Zaken’ of9 July 2005 and in the radio broadcasts, ‘De ochtenden, Argos’ of 22 December 2006and 3 January 2007).82. American Diplomat and negotiator Richard Holbrooke stated in a TV interview,broadcast on 19 November 2005 in Sarajevo (and cited in the above radio broadcast, ‘Deochtenden, Argos’), that he had instructions ‘to sacrifice’ the Safe Areas. The UN withthis knowledge decided for incomprehensible reasons to do precisely nothing (see also,Paris Match, loc. cit., page 44).83. Plaintiff also notes finally in connection with the above that Dutchbat CommanderKarremans reports in his book, ‘Srebrenica: Who Cares’, on page 149, that the Britishsoldiers, who were attached to the Dutchbat battalion, had informed him on 8 June 1995that the suspicion existed that within two weeks the VRS would attack all the SafeAreas. Even the ABiH (Armija Bosna i Herzegovina, the Bosnian Army) had notifiedKarremans of an impending attack. Karremans states in his book that he had passedvarious items of information up to the higher echelons.84. The UN and Dutchbat did absolutely nothing with the above information, which isincomprehensible given the manifestly so evident signs.© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com43