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39192voice he did not recognize with an accent from Vodice say, “[…] I killed another one[…] that we have to burn them before the monitors come”. 846 After he stepped onto histerrace, he saw the backs of two men just outside his house, both wearing grey-greencamouflage uniforms with wide rimmed grey-green camouflage hats. 847 Popović statedthat he heard one of the men, whose voice he did not recognize, say, “is there anythingelse up there”, with an accent similar to the one from Vodice. 848 After the men left, thewitness came downstairs and saw his mother, Stana Popović (born in 1926), lying facedownin the kitchen doorway. 849 He propped her up and asked her if “a rifle shot her”,she nodded, before making a gesture he believed meant that he should flee. 850 She thendied. 851 The witness then saw his mentally ill brother, Mirko Popović (born in 1953)sitting behind the open kitchen door with two bullet wounds to the forehead. 852 Thewitness saw a smashed window and bullet holes around the kitchen, including in thekitchen door, and he stated that it looked like bullets had been fired through thewindow. 853 After escaping to the hills, at approximately 10 p.m. that night the witnessmet his father, Obrad Popović (born in 1920), who had wounds on his head. 854Popović’s father told him that individuals whom he did not identify had shot at himthrough the windows of their house, and that he had escaped by running outside. 855 Thewitness and his father buried the bodies of his mother and brother in a cornfield laterthat night. 856 The witness never reported what had happened to the police. 857 Accordingto the 1991 Population Census, the population of Mokro Polje, in Ervenik municipality,consisted of 801 Serbs out of a total of 803 persons in 1991. 858 Popović stated that in1995 Mokro Polje was an entirely Serb village with 380 inhabitants, of whomapproximately 50 people remained after Operation Storm. 859846 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 25.847 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 26848 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 27.849 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 2, 28.850 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 28.851 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 2, 28.852 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 2, 29.853 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 29.854 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 2, 30.855 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 30.856 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), paras 2, 31.857 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 32.858 C5 (State Bureau of Statistics Population Census of 1991, National Structure of the Population ofCroatia According to Settlement), p. 110.859 P2512 (Jovan Popović, witness statement, 25 January 1999), para. 8.123Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `