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39118above, the Trial Chamber has considered evidence of Witness 69 reviewed in chapter4.2.9.344. ðuja Nonković from Žagrović told the Croatian police on 23 December 2004that on about 13 August 1995, she had accompanied members of UNPROFOR who hadcome to Žagrović and she had identified the body of ðuro Rašuo at the doorstep ofðorñe Rašuo’s house, two metres from the body of Dmitar Rašuo in the front yard, thebody of Ilija Petko at the doorstep of another house, and the body of Milica Petko infront of Lako Rašuo’s garage. 1430 When seeking refuge at the UN compound in Kninsometime at the end of August or beginning of September 1995, Witness 69 talked toSaša Milošević of the Human Rights Centre in Zagreb about dead bodies in Žagrović,and Saša Milošević, after visiting the sites, confirmed that he had seen three corpses stilllying there. 1431 In the UN compound, Witness 69 also told members of UNCIVPOLabout the bodies. 1432 In October 2004, exhumations, subsequent identifications, andforensic examinations revealed that some of the bodies that had been collected in theaftermath of Operation Storm in the course of the human sanitation were those of MilicaPetko, Ilija Petko, and Dmitar Rašuo, all civilians, who had died in Žagrović on 5August 1995. 1433 According to the Šibenik-Knin Crime Investigation PoliceDepartment, the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the HV 4th Guards Brigade operated on 5August 1995 in the area of Žagrović, and military presence in that area was alsoconfirmed by a number of villagers. 1434345. According to a report by the HV 4th Guards Brigade, dated 7 August 1995,soldiers of that brigade were reportedly injured and killed due to an air raid in thevillage of Obljaj (Bosansko Grahovo in Bosnia-Herzegovina) on 1 August (1 wounded),an artillery-infantry attack in Lisina in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 2 August (2 wounded),at Mount Lisina (Grahovo axis) on 3 August (1 killed), combat activities in the Golubićarea in Knin municipality on 5 August (8 wounded), search operations in Golubić on the1430 D180 (Documentation of Croatian authorities’ investigation of murders of Ilija and Milka Petko, andDmitar and ðuro Rašuo), pp. 28-29.1431 P179 (Witness 69, witness statement, 31 May 1997), p. 4.1432 Witness 69, T. 2754; D179 (UNCIVPOL report of 19 September 1995 on reported murders), p. 12.1433 D180 (Documentation of Croatian authorities’ investigation of murders of Ilija and Milka Petko, andDmitar and ðuro Rašuo), p. 21.1434 D180 (Documentation of Croatian authorities’ investigation of murders of Ilija and Milka Petko, andDmitar and ðuro Rašuo), pp. 2-9, 23, 27, 28.197Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `