Former General blamed Gay Dutch Soldiers for the Massacre at Srebrenica

Former Supreme Allied Commander for NATO General John Sheehan asserted during a Senate hearing that due to the fact there were gay soldiers in the Dutch peacekeeping force at Srebrenica Serbs were allowed to overrun the town. This is a patently ridiculous notion. The massacre was largely allowed to happen due to restrictions imposed on the force stationed there by the UN Security Council.The General also stated that rape and sodomy would increase if don't ask don't tell was repealed while ignoring the rise in rape allegations of a mostly heterosexual nature during 2009. It also discounts the fact that male on male rape and sexual harassment occurs in the supposedly totally heterosexual military and that some accusers are then labeled as homosexuals after they report the assault.

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