A former US general who told a senate hearing earlier this month that Dutch military chiefs blamed the 1995 massacre of Srebrenica on gay soldiers now says his comments were ‘inaccurate’.

John Sheehan’s comments caused an outcry in the Netherlands and were soundly condemned by Dutch defence staff.
Sheehan has now written to general Henk van den Breemen, chief of the defence staff at the time of the massacre, whom he claimed had made the comments.
‘I am sorry that my public recollection of those discussions of 15 years ago inaccurately reflected your thinking on some specific social issues on the military,’ the letter states.
‘It is also regrettable I allowed you to be pulled in to a public debate,’ he continued. ‘To be clear, the failure on the ground in Srebrenica was no way the fault of individual soldiers’.
Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, which was under the protection of Dutch UN troops