Dutch state found guilty of Srebrenica massacre

A Dutch court ruled Tuesday that the Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims during the infamous Srebrenica massacre in 1995.

The court said that Dutch peacekeepers had failed to protect the Bosnian Muslims when the town fell to the besieging Serb army. More than 8,000 were killed.

Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, had taken refuge with the Dutch were handed over to the Serbs for killing.

Srebrenica is Europe''s worst massacre since World War II.

A Dutch court ruled last year that the Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica.