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39022Lazo Damjanić (Further Clarification no. 258)509. The Trial Chamber has received evidence with regard to the alleged murder ofLazo Damjanić through the testimony of Vesela Damjanić as well as forensic and otherdocumentation.510. Vesela Damjanić, a Serb from Vrbnik in Orlić municipality, 2217 stated that on 4August 1995 she saw people in cars, tractors, and horse carriages passing by her housein the direction of Knin, who told her that they were fleeing from Croatian soldiers. Onthe morning of 6 August 1995, the witness was sitting in her yard with her husbandLazo Damjanić, her son Rajko, and her sister-in-law Anñelija. Her husband went intothe basement of the house. At about 8:30 a.m., two soldiers armed with rifles, dressed indark camouflage uniforms, with their hair in ponytails, black ribbons around their headsand wearing badges, although the witness did not recall which kind, came into the yard.The soldiers asked the witness if there was anybody hiding in the house, she answeredno, and they fired three rounds at the house. The witness saw her husband come out ofthe basement. The soldiers took him away from the house onto the street. LazoDamjanić was suffering from epilepsy, and as a result of previous attacks his headshook uncontrollably. Vesela Damjanić heard one of the soldiers tell her husband thathe would not be shaking his head for very much longer. The witness begged the soldiersto release her husband whereupon the soldiers threatened to kill her if she did not goaway. 2218 The witness hid behind a tree until the soldiers had left with her husband. 2219She then went onto the road and observed them walking away until she could not seethem anymore. 2220 The witness went back to the tree and hid behind it for about 15-20minutes. 2221 She heard shooting all around her, and then a burst of gunfire coming fromthe direction where her husband had been taken. Lazo Damjanić did not return home.On that same day, Vesela Damjanić saw more soldiers passing by her house on the roadand asked several of them about her husband, but they did not know anything. Also onthat day, in the afternoon, one female and one male soldier came into the witness’s yard2217 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), pp. 1-2 (witness statement of 8 July 1999), 7 (witnessstatement of 13 October 2004).2218 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), p. 2 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).2219 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), pp. 2-3 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).2220 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), p. 3 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).2221 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), pp. 2-3 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).293Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `