Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

39131September 1995, 1334 interviewed on 17 August 1995 three displaced persons at the UNcompound in Knin, who told him about HV soldiers killing six persons travelling on atractor from Kosovo, in Orlić municipality, towards Knin on 5 August 1995. 1335326. Witness 136, a Serb field interpreter for UNCIVPOL and UNCRO, 1336 testifiedthat she interpreted the statement of a woman from Polača in Knin municipality, whoarrived at the UN camp on 5 August 1995 covered in blood with three fingers danglingoff her hand. 1337 The woman told the witness that she had been part of a group of 20 or23 civilians travelling on a tractor and trailer from the village of Polača in Kninmunicipality that ran into HV soldiers at a cross-road in Kovačić, Knin municipality. 1338According to the woman, the soldiers shot and killed three men, Nicola (born 1930),Mile Dragičević (born 1927), and Savo Čeko (born 1940), and wounded two others. 1339The witness testified that the woman did not say anything about whether there wereRSK soldiers on the lorry but the witness knew that at the time many elderly persons,who had no other clothes, were wearing camouflage uniforms. 1340327. According to the operative logbook of the 4th Guards Brigade, on 5 August1995, at 11:04 a.m., the 7th Guards Brigade needed a medical team at the position T-1Borića Glava. 1341 On the same day, at 11:07 a.m., Zebić reported to the 4th GuardsBrigade that the 7th Guards Brigade had entered Knin from the direction of Kovačići, inKnin municipality. 1342328. Based on the evidence received, the Trial Chamber finds that on 5 August 1995,around 10-10:30 a.m., in or near the village of Kovačić in Knin municipality, a group ofapproximately 20 uniformed persons opened fire, from a distance of 20 metres or less,on a tractor and trailer carrying approximately 20 persons, including women and elderlypeople. These persons included Nikola Dragičević, Sava Čeko, and Mile Dragičević,1333 P2352 (Witness 13, witness statements of 16 August 2000, 26 September 2004, and 19 February2008), 2004 statement, paras 10-11.1334P20 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 29 June 1997), pp. 1-2, 6, 13, 23; P21 (Edward Flynn, witnessstatement, 26-27 February 2008), p. 1, paras 3-4, 36; Edward Flynn, T. 1044, 1270, 1291-1292, 1312,1325.1335 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 17; Edward Flynn, T. 1110,1112; P40 (HRAT daily report, 17 August 1995), p. 3.1336 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), pp. 1-2; Witness 136, T. 620, 622, 641, 726, 765,768, 780-782.1337 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 4; Witness 136, T. 711, 715-716, 802.1338 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 4; Witness 136, T. 711, 713.1339 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 4; Witness 136, T. 711, 716.1340 Witness 136, T. 711, 713, 751-752.1341 P2343 (Operative logbook of the 4th Guards Brigade, July and August 1995), p. 36.184Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `