A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday ruled the state was partly responsible for the deaths of some 350 Muslim men in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, ordering it to pay partial compensation.

"The court finds that the Dutch state acted unlawfully," judge Gepke Dulek said, adding Dutch UN peacekeepers had made it easier for Bosnian Serbs to separate the Muslim men and boys, and must have known there was a "real risk they could face inhumane treatment or execution."