DUTCHBAT (military abbreviation of "Dutch battalion") was a nominally Dutch battalion under the command of the United Nations in operation United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). It was hastily formed out of the emerging first ever Air Mobile Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces between February 1994 and November 1995 to participate in peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia. To it fell the role of safekeeping the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. In its third replacement, "Dutchbat III," commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Karremans, the enclave fell to the Bosnian Serbs under Colonel General Ratko Mladić. The forces under Mladić's command proceeded to massacre Srebrenica's male inhabitants after the town's capture.
Colonel (ret.) Thomas Jakob Peter (Thom / Ton) Karremans (born December 29, 1948 in Apeldoorn) was the commander of Dutchbat troops in Srebrenica at the time of the Srebrenica massacre during Bosnian War. Karremans had been assigned to defend the Bosniak enclave made the U.N. "safe area", but he failed to prevent the Serbs from rounding up and killing 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in 1995.
After retiring from the army, he and his wife moved to Spain, partly because of death threats in his native Netherlands.[2] He wrote of his experiences at Srebrenica in Srebrenica, who cares?: Een puzzel van de werkelijkheid (A puzzle of reality).
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