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39188this communication, Sava Babić was found on 5 September 1995 at 10:30 a.m. 879 Acriminal report by the Zadar-Knin Police Administration, signed by Ive Kardum anddated 19 September 1995, documents that Sava Babić, a Serb woman born 1913, wasfound with three entry-exit wounds to the head and two entry-exit wounds to the chest,establishing that the cause of death was “compression of the brain”. 880 An on-siteinvestigation was performed on 7 September 1995 on behalf of the Zadar County Court,during which an empty 7.62-millimetre cartridge was found at the scene. 881 Followingon from this, a report by the Zadar-Knin Police Administration, signed by Ive Kardumand dated 2 January 1996, was sent to the Military Prosecutor in Zadar stating that,since a forensic analysis of the cartridge found at the scene indicated that it had beenfired from a weapon belonging to Mario Dukić, a member of the “third Battalion of the134th Home Guard Brigade”, there were reasonable grounds to believe that thisindividual was responsible for the murder of Sava Babić. 882237. Ive Kardum, Chief of the crime police department for the Zadar-Knin policeadministration in 1995, 883 confirmed that he had prepared and signed a criminal reporton the death of Sava Babić dated 19 September 1995. 884 He also confirmed that he hadprepared a special report, mentioning as a suspect Mario Dukić, a member of the 134thHome Guards Regisment, and sent it to the military prosecutor in Zadar. 885 Kardumtestified that Mario Dukić, identified as having killed Petar Botar, a Serb civilian on 28September 1995 during a separate investigation, was suspected of killing Sava Babićbased on forensic analysis conducted by the centre in Zagreb on a 7.62-millimetrecartridge found near Sava Babić’s body which showed that it came from the same gunas was used to kill Petar Bota. 886 On 31 January 1998, the County Court in Zadarconvicted Mario Dukić of murdering Petar Bota in Kolarina in Benkovac municipality,879 D230 (Letter from the Knin district police administration to the Zadar-Knin police administration, 6September 1995).880 D9 (Documents of the Zadar-Knin police administration relating to the death of Sava Babić), p. 1.881 D9 (Documents of the Zadar-Knin police administration relating to the death of Sava Babić), pp. 1, 3-5.882 D9 (Documents of the Zadar-Knin police administration relating to the death of Sava Babić), pp. 6-9.883P2396 (Ive Kardum, witness statement, 3-4 May 2007), p. 1, paras 2-3; P2397 (Ive Kardum, witnessstatement, 22-23 March 2004), p. 1, paras 1-3, 12, 15, 17; Ive Kardum, T. 9231, 9251-9252, 9398, 9498-9499.884 P2396 (Ive Kardum, witness statement, 3-4 May 2007), para. 8; Ive Kardum, T. 9328-9330, 9464-9465.885 Ive Kardum, T. 9465-9466.886 Ive Kardum, T. 9465-9467, 9470; P2611 (Documentation on legal proceedings against Dukić, Ljutić,and Brčić for the murder of Petar Botar and Sava Babić), Part III, p. 17.127Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `