Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

39079August 1995, he, with others, found the bodies of two men, in their 40s, dressed incivilian clothes on top of a hill outside of Knin. 1810 Hill testified that the men had beenshot in the head on the road as there were blood marks on the road, and then throwndown the side of the road where they lay. 1811 Hill saw large wounds in both heads. 1812Hill further testified that the bodies were starting to decompose and could be smelledfrom the road. 1813 He also testified that he saw similar blood stains on a tour throughSector South around this time. 1814 Hill excluded for the possibility that the blood stainscould have come from dead animals as all but one animal he saw dead in the area werelying in the fields. 1815 Hill testified that on the road close to the two bodies there was atractor or a trailer with ransacked belongings. 1816 Hill assumed that the tractor belongedto the men and that they had been fleeing in it. 1817 Hill took photographs of the bloodstain and the bodies. 1818406. According to the Operative logbook of the 4th Guards Brigade, at 2:40 p.m. on 5August 1995, the 1st Infantry Battalion was in the positions F15 (the cross-roadstowards Drniš), F61 (Dmitrovići, in Knin municipality), and F63 (Dukići). 1819407. In a daily report to the HV Main Staff sent at 6 a.m. on 5 August 1995, AnteGotovina indicated that the 4th Guards Brigade had reached the front line listing the trigpoints as follows: Bolandže, Golo Brdo in Gračac municipality, Slatina, Crni Vrh,Gospina Greda, Prljaj in Knin municipality, Dmitrovići in Knin municipality, Bradaši inKnin municipality, and Knin. 1820408. Finally, the Trial Chamber has received some forensic documentation in relationto the alleged murder incidents. According to this, on 26 August 1995, decomposingbody KN01/247B, numbered 535, approximately 1.80 metres long, was found with1809 P291 (John Hill, witness statement, 23 August 1996), p. 2; P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21January 1998), pp. 3, 93; P293 (John Hill, witness statement, 2 November 1999), p. 3.1810 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 54-55, 80-81; John Hill, T. 3770; D274(John Hill’s diary, entries from 5-13 August 1995), p. 8.1811 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 55, 80; John Hill, T. 3770; D274 (JohnHill’s diary, entries from 5-13 August 1995), p. 8.1812 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 81.1813 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 81.1814 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 55.1815 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 55.1816 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 81; John Hill, T. 3770.1817 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 81.1818 John Hill, T. 3770-3771; P303 (Photographs of a blood stain on a road and two bodies).1819 P2343 (Operations logbook of the 4th Guards Brigade, July and August 1995), p. 37.1820 D180 (Documentation of Croatian authorities’ investigation of murders of Ilija and Milka Petko, andDmitar and ðuro Rašuo), pp. 8-9, 13.236Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `