“We were a shield, a living shield between the Serbs and the refugees. I heard there were two orders: one was to ‘to defend them,’ and the second was, ‘we won’t allow you to bring any Dutch in body bags back home.”

 

 

 

 

 

Wim Dijkema, Warrant Officer for the Dutch peacekeepers, as quoted in the 1999 BBC documentary, “Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave.” For more information on this documentary, which was shown on PBS, see www.pbs.org