Dutch leader says Srebrenica charge 'disgusting'
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ANKARA -- Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has condemned comments by Turkey's president holding Dutch U.N. peacekeepers responsible for the massacre by Serb forces of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, in 1995.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massacre of 8,000 Bosnians there."
Speaking to Dutch broadcaster RTL Z on Tuesday, Rutte called the comment a "disgusting distortion of history."
Rutte added: "We will not lower ourselves to this level. It is totally unacceptable."
