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39177Kijani in Gračac municipality around 4 p.m. on 4 August 1995. 947 He told his familythere to leave the village for security reasons because the HV might have entered thearea. 948 While most of the families in Kijani were getting ready to leave, Sovilj’s father,Vlade Sovilj, did not want to do so, saying that he had heard hourly radioannouncements of Franjo Tuñman’s proclamation telling people not to leave theirhomes as nothing would happen to them. 949 Around 1 a.m. on 5 August 1995, thewitness left Kijani by truck with about ten people from two or three of the Soviljfamilies in the village. 950 Having reached Serbia on 6 August 1995, the witness onceagain tried to convince his father to leave the village, but he refused. 951 Ten to fifteendays later, Sovilj reported to the Red Cross in Serbia, UNPROFOR, Veritas, and onelocal human rights organization that his father had disappeared. 952 The organizationswere unable to tell him anything about his father. 953 The witness later heard that hisfather was killed by Croatian forces on or about 8 August 1995, along with 13 otherswho had remained behind in Kijani. 954 According to the witness, others killed in Kijaniwere predominantly elderly villagers, and named the following persons whose deaths hedid not witness: Mara Sovilj (approximately 70 years old), Mira Sovilj (approximately45 years old), Radomir Sovilj (approximately 42 years old), Danica Sovilj(approximately 60 years old), Maria Jelača (approximately 75 years old), MilevaKolundić (approximately 60 years old), Dane Bolta (approximately 75 years old),Dušan Kesić (approximately 60 years old), Sava Bolta, Branko Jelača, Milica Jelača,Ana Jelača, and Smilja Jelača. 955947 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), para. 7; P87 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement,23 April 2008), para. 8; Mile Sovilj, T. 2217; P88 (Map of Gračac area, marked by Mile Sovilj), location“H”; D134 (Mile Sovilj, supplemental information sheet, 18 April 2008), para. 9.948 Mile Sovilj, T. 2221; D134 (Mile Sovilj, supplemental information sheet, 18 April 2008), para. 9.949 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), paras 8-9; P87 (Mile Sovilj, witnessstatement, 23 April 2008), paras 10-11; Mile Sovilj, T. 2220-2221.950 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), para. 12; P87 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement,23 April 2008), paras 9, 13; D134 (Mile Sovilj, supplemental information sheet, 18 April 2008), para. 9.951 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), para. 12; Mile Sovilj, T. 2221.952 Mile Sovilj, T. 2221.953 Mile Sovilj, T. 2221.954 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), paras 10, 14; P87 (Mile Sovilj, witnessstatement, 23 April 2008), para. 11; Mile Sovilj, T. 2222-2224; P89 (Report on circumstances of death ofVlade Sovilj, issued by the Zagreb Forensic Institute, 14 December 2004); P90 (List of people exhumedfrom the cemeteries of Gračac, Knin, and Korenica, and identified on 14 December 2004); D134 (MileSovilj, supplemental information sheet, 18 April 2008), para. 11.955 P86 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement, 22 February 2007), para.11; P87 (Mile Sovilj, witness statement,23 April 2008), para. 12; Mile Sovilj, T. 2223-2224; P90 (List of people exhumed from the cemeteries ofGračac, Knin, and Korenica, and identified on 14 December 2004); D134 (Mile Sovilj, supplementalinformation sheet, 18 April 2008), para. 11.138Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `