Christ Klep

Christ P. M. Klep (born 1959)[1] is a Dutch military historian. He is a lecturer at Utrecht University and freelance historian and publicist. He has appeared amongst others on Pauw & Witteman, NPO Radio 1 and Knevel & Van de Brink, and has written for de Volkskrant, Trouw and De Groene Amsterdammer - commenting on topics as the Joint Strike Fighter program, the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the recruiting practices of the Armed forces of the Netherlands.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Education and career

Klep studied to become a teacher of English and history between 1982 and 1986. He subsequently went to Utrecht University, specializing in Eastern-European studies, Russian studies, contemporary history and international relations between 1986 and 1988. Afterwards he became a lecturer of history at same University, where he worked until 1992.[8]

Klep worked for the Dutch Institute for Military History of the Dutch Ministry of Defence from 1992 to 2000.[8] From 2000 to 2001 he worked for the Institute of Dutch History. Later he became a freelance historian and publicist. In 2006 he worked a semester as lecturer at University College Roosevelt.[8][9]

In 2006 Klep returned to Utrecht University, where he was a lecturer and researcher until 2010.[8] He earned his doctorate on a study of three peace keeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Srebrenica.[9]

He currently is a lecturer at Utrecht University.[10]

Claims of Dutchbat leadership having knowledge of an impending massacre at Srebrenica

In 2011 he disputed Thom Karremans account about not knowing about the impending genocide at Srebrenica (in 1995); Klep interviewed dozens of Karremans former troops [in Dutchbat III battalion].[11]

Publications

• Somalië, Rwanda, Srebrenica. De nasleep van drie ontspoorde vredesmissies (Amsterdam, 2008)
• Uruzgan. Nederlandse militairen op missie, 2005–2010 (Amsterdam, 2011)

References

1. Meindert van der Kaaij (10 July 2015). "Hier werden duizenden gedood, en wij kijken weg". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 May 2016.
2. "Christ Klep en Michiel Servaes bespreken verschillende scenario's voor Oekraïne" (in Dutch). Pauw & Witteman. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
3. "Christ Klep: waarom die JSF er toch wel komt" (in Dutch). NPO Radio 1. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
4. "Christ Klep - Knevel & Van den Brink" (in Dutch). Knevel & Van den Brink. 20 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
5. "Christ Klep: 'Vroeger was een tatoeage tenminste nog een statement'". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 May 2015.
6. "Krijgsmacht doet zich tekort met misleidende PR". Trouw (in Dutch). 28 July 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
7. "Onderzoekscommissies hebben geen nut - Interview met militair-historicus Christ Klep" (in Dutch). De Groene Amsterdammer. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
8. "Biografie van Christ Klep" (in Dutch). hetsprekersburo.nl. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
9. "Biografie en synopsis Christ Klep" (in Dutch). Historisch Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
10. "dr. Christ Klep". Utrecht University. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
11. Bruno Waterfield (8 November 2011). "Commander of UN forces 'aware Srebrenica massacre was about to happen'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 July 2015.