Christ Klep

Christ Klep (born 1959) 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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

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.^[7]

Klep worked for the Dutch Institute for Military History of the Dutch Ministry of Defence from 1992 to 2000.^[7] 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.^[7][8]

In 2006 Klep returned to Utrecht University, where he was a lecturer and researcher until 2010.^[7] He earned his doctorate on a study of three peace keeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Srebrenica.^[8]

He currently is a lecturer at Utrecht University.^[9]

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].^[10]

Publications

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

References

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