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Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

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39028civilians were executed there by three HV soldiers. 2201 HRAT reported that only a fewpersons remained in the village and there was a persistent smell of death in the village,with cows and sheep lying dead on the ground. 2202 On the site of the <strong>al</strong>leged massacreHRAT found civilian clothes bearing blood stains. 2203500. Witness 136, a Serb field interpr<strong>et</strong>er for UNCIVPOL and UNCRO, 2204 testifiedthat she translated the statements of Bosiljka Berić and another villager who arrived atthe UN compound in Knin on 6 August 1995, and relayed that they were w<strong>al</strong>king <strong>al</strong>ongthe Knin to Drniš road near Uzdolje in Orlić municip<strong>al</strong>ity with a group of five elderlypeople, consisting of four women and a man, when Croatian soldiers passed by anddrove them away in separate cars. 2205 The villager who was with Bosiljka Berić, whowas taken to a Croatian military headquarters, was r<strong>et</strong>urned by a soldier to the spotwhere she and Bosiljka Berić had been picked up. 2206 After being dropped off, thevillager saw that the women she had been with earlier had been killed, while the manwas still <strong>al</strong>ive, as he managed to raise his head. 2207 The villager added that she was not<strong>al</strong>lowed to approach him. 2208501. According to the Operation<strong>al</strong> diary of the Split MD, during the period from 3:30p.m. to 3:37 p.m. on 5 August 1995, the 142nd Home Guard Regiment occupied Oklajvillage and S. Siverić village, reached the line S. Oklaj-S. Siverić, and occupied VelikaPromina. 2209 On 11 August 1995, Captain Matko Kurtović reported to the Commanderof the OG Šibenik that on 5 August 1995, the 124th [sic] Home Guard Regimentliberated the area of Oklaj, Velika Promina in Oklaj municip<strong>al</strong>ity, Drniš and Žitnić inDrniš municip<strong>al</strong>ity, Kosovo in Orlić municip<strong>al</strong>ity, and Vrbnik in Knin municip<strong>al</strong>ity. 2210502. The bodies of seven persons in civilian clothes (m<strong>al</strong>e body KN04/059Bnumbered 235, m<strong>al</strong>e body KN04/060B numbered 239, m<strong>al</strong>e body KN04/061B2201 P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 6 February 2008), para. 55; P1108 (HRAT report, 31October – 1 November 1995), p. 2.2202 P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 6 February 2008), para. 55; P1108 (HRAT report, 31October – 1 November 1995), p. 2.2203 P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 6 February 2008), para. 55; P1108 (HRAT report, 31October – 1 November 1995), p. 2.2204 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), pp. 1-2; Witness 136, T. 620, 622, 641, 726, 765,768, 780-782.2205 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 5; Witness 136, T. 806-807.2206 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 5; Witness 136, T. 806-807.2207 P2 (Witness 136, witness statement, 4 July 1996), p. 5; Witness 136, T. 806-807.2208 Witness 136, T. 806-807.2209 P1183 (Operation<strong>al</strong> diary of the Split MD, undated), pp. 8-9.2210 P2349 (Report on security in OG Šibenik, 11 August 1995), pp. 1-2, 6.287Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `

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