Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

39175261. Ive Kardum, Chief of the crime police department for the Zadar-Knin policeadministration in 1995, 960 testified that he and others carefully investigated the deaths ofmembers of the Sovilj family in 2001 or 2002, upon being informed by one ofKardum’s policemen that a Croatian soldier of Serb ethnicity had murdered a man rightafter Operation Storm due to some property issues. 961 The murdered man and MiraSovilj were buried in a graveyard. 962 Kardum testified that his police searched a homeand found a small pile of charred remains that they sent to a forensic lab to test whetherthey were human remains. 963 According to Kardum, they had not managed to establishthat the Croatian soldier of Serb ethnicity was the killer. 964262. According to a Croatian MUP report, Mira Sovilj, born on 3 September 1950,and Radomir “Braco” Sovilj, born on 14 February 1952, were killed in front of theirfamily home in Kijani in August 1995. The report further stated that two decomposingbodies were found on 10 September 1995 and identified by Vladimir Pavletić as MiraSovilj and Braco Sovilj. Civilian Protection disposed of the bodies at Gračac citycemetery, under number 384 (ID number 388) for Mira Sovilj, and number 385 (IDnumber 389) for Braco Sovilj. A special report was sent to the County Public Prosecutorin Zadar, informing him of the matter. 965 At the same time as these two victims werekilled, their mother Mara Sovilj burned to death in her family home in Kijani. 966 TheMUP report also named a suspected perpetrator, who might have been a member of theHV during the Homeland War. 967 Mile Sovilj testified that he had heard at the time thatthat person, who was the next door neighbour of most of the people killed, was thealleged perpetrator of those crimes. 968263. The Trial Chamber has received forensic evidence with regard to both victims.According to this, a decomposing body, numbered 388, approximately 1.70 metres inlength, was found with a white, short-sleeved T-shirt, blue denim skirt and blue plasticslippers on 10 September 1995 in Gornji Kijani, Gračac municipality, identified by960P2396 (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, 9498-9499.961 Ive Kardum, T. 9504-9505.962 Ive Kardum, T. 9504-9505.963 Ive Kardum, T. 9505.964 Ive Kardum, T. 9505.965 D133 (MUP Zadar report on the killings in Kijani, 14 February 2002), p. 1.966 D133 (MUP Zadar report on the killings in Kijani, 14 February 2002), pp. 1-2.967 D133 (MUP Zadar report on the killings in Kijani, 14 February 2002), pp. 2, 4.968 Mile Sovilj, T. 2235.140Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `