A Dutch court has ruled that the defence ministry is responsible for psychological damage to a former Dutch soldier at Srebrenica in 1995.
Dutch UN peacekeepers, or Dutchbat, were supposed to be protecting the Bosnian Muslim enclave, which was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces.
The court ruled that the soldier's employer did not take care of him properly during the Serb attack.
The defence ministry says it will appeal against the decision.
An official report in the Netherlands in 2002, said the Dutch government and the UN must share responsibility for what happened in Srebrenica.
The ex-soldier claimed that the defence ministry was responsible for the post-traumatic stress he suffered after Srebrenica - where about 7,000 Muslim men were killed after Serb forces took over.
Small battalion
The judge agreed that his employer did not take care of him properly and gave him false hope that the UN would provide air support, supplies and an exit strategy.
The Dutch UN Battalion had more than 100 lightly-armed troops at the enclave. An official report by the War Archives Institute here, has partly blamed the government for sending Dutchbat on a "Mission Impossible".
It is not clear yet whether the court ruling will have wider implications in laying blame on the UN.
Some say it could - if more Dutchbat soldiers go to court - to claim that they, as well as Bosnian Muslims, were victims of Srebrenica.
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