Dutch soldiers stationed in Bosnia during the 1992-1995 civil war there regularly gave Nazi salutes and made racist remarks about the local Muslim population, according to a Dutch newspaper. Dutch army commanders did little or nothing to discipline the right-wing extremists within their ranks, the paper added, citing military intelligence documents.
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