{{short description|Dutch military historian (born 1959)}} '''Christ P. M. Klep''' (born 1959)<ref>{{cite news|author=Meindert van der Kaaij |url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4500/Politiek/article/detail/4098390/2015/07/10/Hier-werden-duizenden-gedood-en-wij-kijken-weg.dhtml |title=Hier werden duizenden gedood, en wij kijken weg |language=Dutch |newspaper=Trouw |date=10 July 2015 |accessdate=29 May 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://pauwenwitteman.vara.nl/media/310486 |title=Christ Klep en Michiel Servaes bespreken verschillende scenario's voor Oekraïne |language=Dutch |publisher=Pauw & Witteman |date=3 March 2014 |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.radio1.nl/item/134102-Christ-Klep:-waarom-die-JSF-er-toch-wel-komt.html |title=Christ Klep: waarom die JSF er toch wel komt |language=Dutch |publisher=NPO Radio 1 |date=25 April 2013 |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.eo.nl/tv/knevelenvandenbrink/artikel-detail/christ-klep-8/ |title=Christ Klep - Knevel & Van den Brink |language=Dutch |publisher=Knevel & Van den Brink |date=20 August 2014 |accessdate=7 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827185954/http://www.eo.nl/tv/knevelenvandenbrink/artikel-detail/christ-klep-8/ |archive-date=27 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/dossier-4-uur-nieuwsbreak/christ-klep-vroeger-was-een-tatoeage-tenminste-nog-een-statement~a3748324/ |title=Christ Klep: 'Vroeger was een tatoeage tenminste nog een statement' |language=Dutch |newspaper=de Volkskrant |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/3482832/2013/07/28/Krijgsmacht-doet-zich-tekort-met-misleidende-PR.dhtml |title=Krijgsmacht doet zich tekort met misleidende PR |language=Dutch |newspaper=Trouw |date=28 July 2013 |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.groene.nl/artikel/interview-met-militair-historicus-christ-klep |title=Onderzoekscommissies hebben geen nut - Interview met militair-historicus Christ Klep |language=Dutch |publisher=De Groene Amsterdammer |date=20 February 2009 |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=hsb>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.hetsprekersburo.nl/sprekers/christ-klep/409 |title=Biografie van Christ Klep |language=Dutch |publisher=hetsprekersburo.nl |date= |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref>
Klep worked for the Dutch Institute for Military History of the Dutch Ministry of Defence from 1992 to 2000.<ref name=hsb/> 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.<ref name=hsb/><ref name=hn>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/nl/content/70605/biografie-en-synopsis-christ-klep.html |title=Biografie en synopsis Christ Klep |language=Dutch |publisher=Historisch Nieuwsblad |date= |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref>
In 2006 Klep returned to Utrecht University, where he was a lecturer and researcher until 2010.<ref name=hsb/> He earned his doctorate on a study of three peace keeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Srebrenica.<ref name=hn/>
He currently is a lecturer at Utrecht University.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/CPMKlep/0 |title=dr. Christ Klep |publisher=Utrecht University |date= |accessdate=7 May 2015}}</ref>
==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].<ref>{{cite news|author=Bruno Waterfield |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8877056/Commander-of-UN-forces-aware-Srebrenica-massacre-was-about-to-happen.html |title=Commander of UN forces 'aware Srebrenica massacre was about to happen' |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 November 2011 |accessdate=12 July 2015}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Somalië, Rwanda, Srebrenica. De nasleep van drie ontspoorde vredesmissies'' (Amsterdam, 2008) * ''Uruzgan. Nederlandse militairen op missie, 2005–2010'' (Amsterdam, 2011)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Klep, Christ}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Dutch historians Category:Dutch military historians Category:Utrecht University alumni Category:Academic staff of Utrecht University Category:21st-century Dutch historians <!-- resides in Breda, went to school in Etten Leur -->