Wim Kok obituary
(The Guardian Netherlands)

Primer minister of the Netherlands who boosted the economy, and legalised euthanasia and same-sex marriageThough Wim Kok, the prime minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002, had a reputation as a highly effective politician and social reformer, it is likely to be overshadowed by the Srebrenica massacre in former Yugoslavia in 1995, when Dutch troops failed on his watch to prevent the worst war crime in Europe since 1945.Kok, who has died aged 80, sent a battalion of soldiers, nicknamed Dutchbat, to join the United Nations UNPROFOR peacekeeping mission, involving troops from many nations stationed in various parts of the violently disintegrating Yugoslavia. Continue reading...