Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

38942663. Based on the evidence received, the Trial Chamber finds that on 6 August 1995,around 5 p.m., approximately 24 persons wearing grey-green camouflage uniforms andgrey-green camouflage hats, their faces painted black and accompanied by three tanks,approached Popovići. Jovan Popović hid, but could still hear shooting, see flames andsmell smoke. Upon seeing the uniformed persons leave, he returned home and found thehouse ransacked with broken windows, his guitar and several kilograms of his honeygone, and three stables and around 20 haystacks burned. The Trial Chamber finds onthis basis that the uniformed persons caused this damage and took these items.Considering that Jovan Popović is a Serb, the Trial Chamber finds that all these itemswere owned by a Krajina Serb. The Trial Chamber has previously found that theapproximately five men who came to Jovan Popović’s house in the morning or earlyafternoon of 7 August 1995 were HV soldiers, based on the witness’s description oftheir uniforms, in particular the patches with the letters “HV”, and the similarity of theiruniforms to those of the men standing or sitting on tanks on 6 August 1995 (see 4.1.6(Stana and Mirko Popović - Further Clarification nos 5-6)). Considering that the latterpersons wore military uniforms, came in a large group together with three tanks, andlooked like the HV soldiers who came on 7 August 1995, the Trial Chamber finds thatthey were also members of the HV. The Trial Chamber will further consider thisincident in relation to Counts 1, 4, and 5 of the Indictment in chapters 5.5.2, 5.6.2, and5.8.2 (f) and (g) below.664. Based on the evidence received, the Trial Chamber further finds that the HVsoldiers who came to Jovan Popović’s house in the morning or early afternoon of 7August 1995 entered every house in Popovići hamlet, forcing any locked doors, tookitems such as TV sets and hams, and loaded them onto a tractor. Considering JovanPopović’s statement that Mokro Polje was an entirely Serb village before OperationStorm, the Trial Chamber finds that all these items were owned by Krajina Serbs. TheTrial Chamber will further consider this incident in relation to Counts 1 and 4 of theIndictment in chapters 5.6.2 and 5.8.2 (f) below.665. The evidence indicates that on 12 or 13 September 1995 a group of four peopleresembling a family were looting residences in the area of Mokro Polje, which the TrialChamber understands to mean they took unspecified items away. The evidence stronglyindicates that these four people were civilians. Under these circumstances, the Trial2801 P68 (Summary of UNMO Sector South situation reports from 7 August to 22 November 1995), p. 44.373Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `