26 minutes agoDutch general's confession to Kosovo war, Serb crimes
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Dutch KFOR General Ton Van Loon, in a confession to Klan Kosova has shown how he saw the town to be stationed, Rahovecin, 20 years ago. Ton Van Loon says that when they first decided they tried to establish contact with the local population and understand what was really going on. [...]
Ton Van Loon says that when they first decided they tried to establish contact with the local population and understand what was really going on.
You didn't have the police, actually we were the police. We made sure people told us what had happened. We tried to turn the situation into normal, no more violence”.
The Dutch general also remembers some details of how Rahoveci was in June 1999, when he entered here as part of NATO forces.
We found the hospital in Rahovec out of office. We put some doctors in there to run”.
What you can do in this situation is separate sides, stay in the middle and not let them fight”
He also remembers the most difficult part of his stay here.
The hardest thing to do was to deal with mass killings and mass graveyards. 20 years ago, I first faced a place where a massacre had occurred. This level of cruelty, inhuman behavior, is the most difficult thing to face”.
This disgust for us soldiers was the most difficult we've faced”.
Two decades later Ton Van Loon expressed optimism about the future of Kosovo and Serbia.
You must have optimism. There are indicators that will have peace between Kosovo and Serbia. So I think there are steps in the right direction. Will that happen overnight? No. Something like that takes time, but we always have to look at”.
