‘Despite the Mutilated Corpses, I Immediately Wanted to Return to Yugoslavia’

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How do you deal with badly mutilated corpses and wounded as a UN observer? And how do you give a disastrous war a place in your mind? In a new episode of Delta Tango, Colonel Ad van de Kreeke tells how he earned his spurs in Lebanon and was then confronted with death on a daily basis in the enclave of Bihac. Despite the horrors he saw in Bosnia, he always wanted to go back, because he felt alive there. He also tells Olof van Joolen and Silvan Sc…