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39040Croatian soldiers came to her house and told her not to be afraid and that they were“cleaning the area” from soldiers. On the same day, three soldiers came to the house ofðurñija Mirković (born 1925) while she and the witness stood outside at the gate. Whilecursing the two women’s Serb mothers, one soldier shot ðurñija Mirković. Althoughnot hit, the witness fell down and lost consciousness. 2090 After she woke up and realizedthat ðurñija Mirković was dead, she fled the village and after about eleven days came tothe UNPROFOR headquarters in Knin, together with her husband Jovan Mirković. 2091After some weeks, the witness travelled to Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia in a convoy. 2092480. Jovan Mirković, a Serb from Polača in Knin municipality who was 67 years oldin 1995, 2093 testified that Polača was shelled on 4 August 1995 after which a lot ofpeople fled the village. After 5 August 1995 very few people remained in the villageand only the witness, his wife, and three others, including ðurñija Mirković, remainedin the hamlet Mirkovići. 2094 Two to three days after the shelling, the witnessencountered five armed men wearing camouflage uniforms, travelling in a car. 2095 Theytold him that they were going to “burn everything”. The men forced the witness to comewith them by walking in front of the car. 2096 Eventually, the witness was taken to a largemilitary building in the village of Vrlike in Split municipality by four other men incamouflage uniform. Before the witness entered the building he was beaten by a mancalled Božo Slavić, who was also wearing a camouflage uniform. Slavić hit the witnesson the head with a rifle butt and in the stomach with a baton as well as in the back. Hecursed the witness’s Serb mother and told him that although Tuñman might give thewitness the right to live in Croatia, he would not. The witness was then interrogated andpushed in the ribs with a club. 2097 After about an hour and a half the witness was takento Sinj in Split municipality where he was detained with twelve or thirteen otherpeople. 2098 The witness’s son later came to Sinj at which point the witness managed toleave with him. The witness eventually ended up in the “UNPROFOR headquarters”,together with his wife, Smiljana Mirković, and then joined a convoy for Sremska2090 P629 (Smiljana Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 4.2091 P629 (Smiljana Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), paras 4-6.2092 P629 (Smiljana Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 6.2093 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), p. 1.2094 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 1.2095 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), paras 1-2.2096 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 2.2097 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 4.2098 P628 (Jovan Mirković, witness statement, 9 March 2007), para. 5.275Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `