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Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

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39194Serb <strong>et</strong>hnicity. The Tri<strong>al</strong> Chamber will further consider this incident in relation toCounts 1, 6, and 7 of the Indictment in Chapters 5.3.2 and 5.8.2 (b).228. The evidence indicates that Stevo Vujnović was killed b<strong>et</strong>ween the beginning ofAugust and 21 or 22 August 1995 in Oton Polje and that Stevo’s mother, named Martaor Marija Vujnović was killed there in early August 1995. However, the Tri<strong>al</strong> Chamberhas received insufficient evidence regarding the causes, dates, and other circumstancesof these two persons’ deaths. In this regard, the Tri<strong>al</strong> Chamber considered <strong>al</strong>so that theautopsy report with regard to Stevo Vujnović s<strong>et</strong> out that the cause of death could not beascertained. The Tri<strong>al</strong> Chamber will therefore not further consider these incidents inrelation to Counts 1, 6, and 7 of the Indictment.Stana and Mirko Popović (Further Clarification nos 5-6)229. The Tri<strong>al</strong> Chamber has received relevant evidence with regard to the <strong>al</strong>legedmurder of Stana and Mirko Popović through the testimony of Jovan Popović. Thiswitness, a Serb from Popovići haml<strong>et</strong>, Mokro Polje village in Ervenik municip<strong>al</strong>ity, 825stated that b<strong>et</strong>ween 3 and 6 August 1995, he used binoculars to watch from his housemany cars drive from the direction of Ervenik towards Gračac. 826 On the morning of 6August 1995, he saw projectiles being fired to and from Kom Hill. 827 At 5 p.m. that day,he saw through his binoculars three medium-sized tanks with cannons, each with abouteight soldiers sitting or standing on top of them, on the road from Lika to Popovići. 828He saw that the soldiers were wearing grey-green camouflage uniforms with widerimmed grey-green camouflage hats and that their faces were painted black. 829 Thewitness heard shooting, and when the chimney of his house was hit he ran about onekilom<strong>et</strong>re and hid behind a stone w<strong>al</strong>l, where he continued to hear shots, see flames, andsmell smoke. 830 He r<strong>et</strong>urned to his home after sundown, after seeing the soldiers and th<strong>et</strong>anks leaving, and found the house ransacked and smelling of smoke. 831 Damageincluded broken windows, the burning of three stables and around 20 haystacks, and the824 P2032 (Report on circumstances of death of Stevo Vujnović, 5 October 2004), pp. 1-2.825 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), p. 1, paras 1, 4.826 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 3, 9.827 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 11.828 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 12.829 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 12.830 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 13.831 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 13-14.121Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `

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