Good afternoon.
I thank you for being here, in these important circumstances, even though they not be very enjoyable.
I am glad to have heard you because yours is the best testimony one may have about the consequences of having transformed a peacekeeping military in an army carrying out a dirty war.
My question is for General Hillier. The first problem is that there is a war, but the origin of the issue of torturing detainees is the 2005 agreement. General, your name is at the bottom of that agreement. At that time, the Dutch signed an agreement including the provisions that are in the 2007 agreement, such as full access at all times, in order to make sure that they could visit the prisons at any time even if the jailers claimed that there was no torture. Their agreement allowed the Red Cross to go there at any time and not only upon request as is stated in your 2005 agreement.
About the 2005 agreement, you were not the only one tasked with negotiating it. That was not your job. How did that happen? Who advised you?