You claim there was violence when the familywas picked. It wasn't usual in the Netherlands at that time. It is up to you prove that their deportation was in any way unusual.
And too brain damaged.
So did Lt. Calley.
He doesn't seem to have worked out quite who he should have been protecting.
The Dutch didn't have that particular problem - they had been put in as witnesses to supervise a cease-fire, and there weren't enough of them to protect the Bosnians, and they weren't equipped to fight anybody. They'd been making repeated requests for reinforcement and for heavy equipment for months before the massacre - as much to have the capacity to protect themselves from the Bosnians, who weren't exactly pacifists, as to protect the Bosnians from the Serbs.
You may be unhappy they they didn't choose to sacrifice themselves in some kind of pointless - if dramatic -gesture, but this was real life, not some half-baked Hollywood epic.
I don't remember any hairnets in the television footage of the events
- on either the male or the female soldiers involved. The Dutch commander did have a fairly ridiculous moustache, but so do many Dutch officers.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen