UN protection zone: Why NATO did not intervene in Srebrenica in 1995
The former headquarters of the UN blue helmets Dutchbat in Potočari near Srebrenica
There is much speculation about the circumstances surrounding the conquest of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb troops under General Ratko Mladić in July 1995. The fact that NATO did not intervene is probably primarily the responsibility of Jacques Chirac's French government.