The Spectator, April 20th, 2002
The entire Dutch cabinet has resigned over the publication of the official report into the failure of Dutch troops to prevent the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. This action savours as much of electioneering as of the operation of conscience upon the minds of hardened professional politicians. In an age as sentimental as ours, many people assume that a man who resigns over something, or apologises for it, must have a good heart, and therefore be worth voting for. With elections about to take place in Holland, resignation was the best possible option for the cabinet in the ci...
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