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On July 16, 2014, the Hague District Court (the Court) in Mothers of Srebrenica v. The Netherlands and The United Nations ruled (unofficial English translation) that the Netherlands is liable for the deportation of more than 300 Bosniak men and boys who were subsequently killed in Srebrenica in July 1995. According to the press release (unofficial English translation), the Court found that “[g]iven the information Dutchbat had about the fate of the male refugees at the time and because of the special position of the compound—a fenced-in area where they had full control—they should not have participated in the deportation.” The Court also found that “the able-bodied men staying at the compound would have survived if Dutchbat had not cooperated with their deportation.”