When I read the interview with me in Delta 2, 17-01-02, I was rather shocked by the headline ‘Sometimes our guards must kill people so that we can help people’ and the words used to summarise my answer on the question about what caused me anxiety.
Answering this question I tried to explain the following:
In Pakistan we were forced by law to travel with an armed police escort through the areas in which the refugee camps were set up. It was clear to us that the Afghan refugees needed humanitarian and medical assistance badly, and to reach these people we just had to give in on accepting the police escort. After a long discussion we decided to continue the project. Although this decision was made, I still had second thoughts on it, and I was afraid that we might end up in a situation where the police would have to use their weapons to protect us. Fortunately this never happened. I’m going out and am willing to take personal risks, to help people who have become victims of war and killing, but would not accept any killing to be able to do so.
Olaf Pots
Correction 2 (Kosovo plant)
On page 4 in Delta 2 and 3, a mistake in the story about the ferronickel plant in Kosovo. This plant was bombed by the NATO and not by the Serbs as was written in the beginning of the story.
When I read the interview with me in Delta 2, 17-01-02, I was rather shocked by the headline ‘Sometimes our guards must kill people so that we can help people’ and the words used to summarise my answer on the question about what caused me anxiety. Answering this question I tried to explain the following:
In Pakistan we were forced by law to travel with an armed police escort through the areas in which the refugee camps were set up. It was clear to us that the Afghan refugees needed humanitarian and medical assistance badly, and to reach these people we just had to give in on accepting the police escort. After a long discussion we decided to continue the project. Although this decision was made, I still had second thoughts on it, and I was afraid that we might end up in a situation where the police would have to use their weapons to protect us. Fortunately this never happened. I’m going out and am willing to take personal risks, to help people who have become victims of war and killing, but would not accept any killing to be able to do so.
Olaf Pots
Correction 2 (Kosovo plant)
On page 4 in Delta 2 and 3, a mistake in the story about the ferronickel plant in Kosovo. This plant was bombed by the NATO and not by the Serbs as was written in the beginning of the story.
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