Dutch fury at US general's gay theory over Srebrenica

[the_gabih]

Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general's claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers.

A defence ministry spokesman dismissed the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander, as as "complete nonsense".

Gen Sheehan had been speaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve

Comments

[roseofjuly]

Damn, you'd think he'd at least find an equally bigoted person in the Dutch military to back him up before he spouted his nonsense. Who's this mysterious "former chief of staff of the Dutch army"?

[peamasii]

Dutch Army Chief of Staff Hankman Berman, who was fired by the Dutch Parliament for failing to protect Srebrenica. The Dutch government did not take lightly the occurrences... but it had nothing to do with gays.

[luna_puella]

The best part is that this Hankman Berman does not even exist. He probably meant Henk van den Breemen, but that hardly makes it better. :P

[peamasii]

yes, you're probably right :)

[yunghustlaz]

General van den Breemen. It's good to note also that he came out afterwards, saying that the allegations were ridiculous and there was a host of contributing factors that did not include homophobia and morale in relation to it.