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Writ of summons - Van Diepen Van der Kroef

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Brantz (Tuzla)↕Karremans, Franken (Srebrenica/Potocari)This Dutch line maintained close contact with The Hague, thus breaching UN Commandand Control. That Dutch <strong>of</strong>ficers were highly placed in the UN hierarchy was notcoincidental. They had been placed there by The Netherlands to keep an eye on things(see page 131 <strong>of</strong> the Summary <strong>of</strong> the NIOD Report).167. The Hague exercised in due course a continuous influence on Dutchbat. That expresseditself, inter alia, by frequent requests for information, which thus by-passed the formallines <strong>of</strong> communication and responsibilities. That caused General Nicolai in Sarajevolater to complain (see page 2626 <strong>of</strong> the NIOD Report):‘The moment when I really did make a somewhat bad-tempered call to The Hague waswhen those people in The Hague started asking where the Forward Air Controllerswere. It really is too ridiculous for words that they already want to know that kind <strong>of</strong>thing in The Hague.’168. The Dutch UNPROFOR <strong>of</strong>ficers (including the above cited Nicolai himself) cut throughthe chain <strong>of</strong> command by calling the Safe Area directly and skipping a link in the chain<strong>of</strong> command <strong>of</strong> Dutchbat ↔ Tuzla ↔ Sarajevo ↔ Zagreb (see page 2626 <strong>of</strong> the NIODReport). In this way a dissenting link – one that was not congruent with the wishes andinterests <strong>of</strong> the State <strong>of</strong> the Netherlands – in the UN chain <strong>of</strong> command could be bypassedand the State <strong>of</strong> the Netherlands could exercise its influence. A pattern existed infact in which decisions were strongly influenced by a Dutch cabal.169. As an example <strong>of</strong> this Plaintiff refers to the meeting that Karremans had with Mladicafter the fall <strong>of</strong> the Safe Area. Karremans consulted with Nicolai (Sarajevo) before themeeting, to whom Karremans let it be un<strong>der</strong>stood that the preferred line had the approval<strong>of</strong> Voorhoeve (The Hague). When the discussion between Karremans and Mladic cameto an end, Karremans reported to Brantz (Tuzla), who directly informed Voorhoeve (The© <strong>Van</strong> <strong>Diepen</strong> <strong>Van</strong> <strong>der</strong> <strong>Kroef</strong> Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com77

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