THE HAGUE (AFP) - A long-awaited Dutch parliamentary probe into the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica blamed the United Nations and the Dutch government yesterday for errors in judgment that failed to prevent Europe’s worst single atrocity since World War II. The report also singled out the French commander of UN forces in ex-Yugoslavia, General Bernard Janvier, for failing to rush air support to the zone. “The committee thinks that there were underestimations both in the Netherlands and at the UN as to what Bosnian Serbs were in a position to do,” said the findings released yesterday. “The entire international community was trailing behind events and was insufficiently prepared for the war crimes that were committed by the Bosnian Serbs,” it said.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU yesterday sharply criticized the Yugoslav government for offering “insufficient” cooperation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and urged Balkan countries to swiftly hand over war crimes suspects living in their territory. In the warning, issued after a meeting of EU foreign ministers here, the EU also said poor cooperation by any Balkan states with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) would undermine their chances of moving closer to the EU. “Failure to cooperate fully with ICTY would seriously jeopardize further movement toward the EU” for countries in the Balkan region, they noted.

A Slav-Macedonian police inspector has been gunned down by unknown assailants in a tense neighborhood in the capital Skopje, police said yesterday. Kiro Dimitrovski, 46, was killed late Sunday in Skopje’s northern, ethnically mixed district of Cair, which also had been the scene of an attack on an ethnic Albanian party headquarters earlier in the day. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. (AP)

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic returned to court yesterday after a two-week recovery from the flu to face testimony from a former Croatian defense minister. (AP)