The organization is best known for bringing a civil action against the United Nations for a breach of duty of care for the failure to prevent the genocide at Srebrenica.
[1] Mehmedović, a homemaker turned human rights activist who lost her husband and both sons in the massacre, had returned to Srebrenica, also in 2002, becoming one of the first Bosniaks to move back to the region after the war.
The legal basis that differentiated the two was that in the second trial the court looked at the issue of effective control: command shifted at the point where the safe haven was overrun; at that point, effective control shifted from the United Nations to the Dutch government due to the loss of command structures.
[10] The precedent of this case is that participating state under a United Nations flag may be liable where the UN immunity is enforced.
[11] In 2019 the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch forces were 10% liable for the massacre given the 10% probability that they could have prevented it.