<span style="color: #222222;">The Netherlands yesterday offered its apologies for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide. For the first time since the 1995 massacre, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren apologized to survivors for the Dutch peacekeepers' failure to prevent the killings.<br />''<br />''During a ceremony in Potocari, Ollongren said, the international community failed to offer adequate protection to the people of Srebrenica. The Dutch government shares responsibility for the situation in which that failure occurred. And for this, we offer our deepest apologies.<br />''<br />''The Srebrenica killings came at the tail end of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.<br />''<br />''Bosnian Serb forces overran the Dutch UN protection zone at Srebrenica and massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys.<br />''<br />''The slaughter, judged an act of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, was the worst single atrocity of the war, in which about 100,000 people died.</span><br />